On 2009-08-14 11:50 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Robert Kern<robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2009-08-14 01:42 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> >>> 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? >> >> In particular, the Apache license includes language that explicitly allows >> you >> to sublicense. The BSD license does not, so BSD->PSF or BSD->Apache->PSF is >> murkier than Apache->PSF. > > Ok, I thought that BSD is a safe bet for everything. I was wrong.
If you don't expect to get lawyers involved, it's a pretty good choice. If you do get lawyers involved, the Apache license has all of the verbiage to make them happy and shut up. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
