Sebastian Bassi wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Paulo J. Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was just wondering, if you wish to commercialize an application >> developed in Python, what's the way to go? > > You choose the conditions. Nothing in Python license prevents you of > selling your work. > >> I guess the only way is to sell the source, right? > > No > >> This is because (and tell me if I am wrong): >> 1) You can't sell an executable because Python doesn't compile to native >> code (the usual approach, afaik); > > There are py2exe utilities to compile Python applications. > >> 2) You can't sell the bytecode, otherwise you get the client stuck with >> a specific python version (given bytecode might vary between versions) >> (the alternative); > > Never heard of people selling bytecode, but I guess yes, it is tied to > the same version where is was produced. >
I feel as if you are replying to a question _against_ python. No, this is definitely not against python. It was just a matter of knowing how Python commercial applications might be sold. Which would be the best bet with regards to client ease of installation and running of a python application. -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com Webpage: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list