On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:55 AM, <li...@gabriel-striewe.de> wrote: > I know the question is why anybody should want to do so, but I do > think that a project which depends on a non-free compiler is not free > after all.
It's a philosophical question - Python is under a BSD style license, so the core devs (taken as a group) don't have a fundamental objection to the idea of closed source software, just a pragmatic view that open source is simply a better approach most of the time (both as a developer and as a user). This used to be more of an issue because MS didn't provide a decent free compiler for their platform. These days (since the release of Visual Studio Express), we expect that people willing to use (or support) a closed OS can cope with also using the free-as-in-beer closed compiler provided by the vendor of that OS. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
