Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

2005-05-20 Thread Bob Ippolito
On May 20, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Kenneth McDonald wrote: > Unfortunately, the hard part is actually getting people to agree on > what constitutes a central naming authority. I guarantee that without > Apple involvement, twenty different people will come to this same > conclusion (it's a good one, aft

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

2005-05-20 Thread Kenneth McDonald
Unfortunately, the hard part is actually getting people to agree on what constitutes a central naming authority. I guarantee that without Apple involvement, twenty different people will come to this same conclusion (it's a good one, after all), and we'll shortly see twenty different 'central' namin

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

2005-05-20 Thread Bob Ippolito
On May 20, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Jonathan Wight wrote: > > On May 20, 2005, at 03:00, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > > >>> Does it allow the _creation_ of custom metadata tags on files? Or >>> are >>> we restricted to the ones defined by Apple? >>> >>> >>> >> >> Metadata importers can define whatever key

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

2005-05-20 Thread Jonathan Wight
On May 20, 2005, at 03:00, Bob Ippolito wrote: >> Does it allow the _creation_ of custom metadata tags on files? Or are >> we restricted to the ones defined by Apple? >> >> > > Metadata importers can define whatever key/value pairs they want to. > Only certain keys are used intelligently by Appl

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

2005-05-20 Thread has
Bob wrote: >>I have nothing against the GPL (well, yes I do, I think it makes the >>free and commercial software sides enemies, but that's a completely >>different topic), but I do think it would be nice if all free Python >>software was released under the same license as Python itself. > >Well th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

2005-05-20 Thread Michael Hudson
Kenneth McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have nothing against the GPL (well, yes I do, I think it makes the > free and commercial software sides enemies, but that's a completely > different topic), but I do think it would be nice if all free Python > software was released under the same li

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

2005-05-20 Thread Bob Ippolito
On May 19, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Kenneth McDonald wrote: > I have nothing against the GPL (well, yes I do, I think it makes the > free and commercial software sides enemies, but that's a completely > different topic), but I do think it would be nice if all free Python > software was released under th

[Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

2005-05-19 Thread Kenneth McDonald
I have nothing against the GPL (well, yes I do, I think it makes the free and commercial software sides enemies, but that's a completely different topic), but I do think it would be nice if all free Python software was released under the same license as Python itself. Python is an elegant language,