Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As the only director of the Python Software Foundation to vote against a >recent Board motion to implement the change in licensing terms described in > > http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2006/04/python-25-licensing-change.html > >I would like to place on record my protest against this change. I think >it will harm the Python language and ultimately be counter-productive, >reducing the user base and discouraging open source programmers from >contributing to the code base. > >If you disagree with this proposed change it's not too late to do >something about it. If this change goes ahead it will be the end of >Python as we know it.
The subject of this post really scared me. I was one of the driver developers for XFree86. They really DID change their license in XFree86 4.4, and within about 6 months, XFree86 was effectively dead and X.Org had taken over the world, with the same code base but a more traditional license. I held my breath until I read the actual document... -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
