On 1/25/11 3:02 PM, rantingrick wrote: > This is a major flaw in the design and i would be > happy to fix the flaw. However our "friend" Fredrick decided to > copyright the module to himself! What a jerk! Which is quite > disgusting considering that Tkinter, and TclTk are completely open > source!
Uh. ... LOL. Copyright doesn't mean what you think it means. Tkinter is copyrighted. Python is copyrighted. Tcl/TK is copyrgithed. In fact: everything that is "open source" is copyrighted. By definition[* see footnote]. Open source is simply copyrighted material that has been released under a *license* that allows you to copy it, too: sometimes with some significant catches (i.e., GPL), sometimes with basically no strings at all except not to sue (i.e., MIT). So. Its a major flaw? Well! Go fix it, you have every right to. Python's source is released under a rather liberal license, allowing you to do just about anything you want with it. Including fix it and even-- gasp-- submit those fixes to the bug-tracker for inclusion. -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/ * Some software has no copyright, such as SQLITE: it has been released into the public domain. But that is exceedingly rare, and can be a bit complicated as public domain and its meaning varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Whereas copyright is pretty standard across the board and subject to a whole lot of international treaties. I'm really not sure you can legitimately call public domain software open source: its free to use, modify, and do anything you want with (provided you're in a jurisdiction which recognizes public domain), but it has its own particular legal ... issues. Then again, IANAL.
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