On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Robert Bradshaw<rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:05 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I'm just curious. Why does the PSF reject BSD-licensed code, but >>> accept Apache-licensed code, given that the Apache license is vastly >>> more restrictive than BSD? I can understand this, but find it >>> surprising. >>> >> >> I'm also scratching my head a little on that one, and would love to >> hear the reasons behind it... > > Yes, me too. The page in question is here: http://www.python.org/psf/ > contrib/ . I think it would be much simpler to just use the BSD and > be done with it. > > On the other hand, ctypes is MIT license, and is now included with > Python, so maybe the above is not set in stone.
What stops you from taking a BSD code and relicense it to Apache? You don't need any permission, do you? Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
