Right ;) For now, I ended up implementing the functionality differently in a way that doesn't use the os.walk() routine. This is in some sense suboptimal, so I'm still curious to know what the answer is.
-- Dirk On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: > In the past, we've used autoinstall to make use of library code that > doesn't have a compatible license, assuming that the library is freely > distributed on the Internet. However, that approach does not seem > appropriate for this particular use. > > Adam > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpra...@chromium.org> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In the course of working on new-run-webkit-tests, I find myself >> needing to implement a variant of some code normally provided in the >> Python standard library. Attempting to implement this in a clean room >> manner will be painful and nonobvious, so I'd just as soon just >> cut&paste the relevant code over and modify it. However, doing so >> would require me to include the appropriate license info, and I'm told >> that the PSF license may not necessarily be already approved for >> inclusion into the tree. >> >> Anyone have any thoughts on this? The code in question is the >> implementation of the os.walk() routine (about 10 lines of code), >> which needs to be emulated using an in-memory implementation of a >> filesystem that uses a dictionary of files. the PSF license is here: >> http://docs.python.org/license.html . It is GPL-compatible but more >> liberal. >> >> -- Dirk >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev