On 10/25/06 4:52 PM, Jason Davies wrote:
> It's definitely GPL-compatible (see
> http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html) - but I don't think that
> necessarily means it's compatible with Django's license.  I am not a
> lawyer :-(

Nor am I, but figuring out the legality of distributing decimal.py is 
unfortunately something someone we'll have to do.  I don't have time myself to 
read the Python license; does anyone here know if it is BSD-compatible?

> I'm not sure how easy it is to get in touch with the developers
> themselves.

Would the PSF be the right community to ask here?

> I don't like the option of falling back to floats in Python 2.3 because
> it means an application might not produce exactly the same results as
> it would using decimals.

Agreed -- consistency is important.

Jacob

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