On 26 Jun 2001 10:30:06 -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
"JA" == Jerome Alet <alet@unice.fr> writes:
JA> For Zope it's not sure, but for Python, as well as for all JA> what people usually call "open source" languages, the license JA> of choice should be the GPL, or at least the LGPL, in order JA> for the language in question to not become bastardized by some JA> powerful entity.
I think I'm accurately channeling Guido when I say that Python will never be GPL'd. AFAIK, there is no GPL code even in the standard Python distribution. Both of those states of affair are by conscious decision: regardless of what you think of the GPL (and I personally happen to believe it can be a good license for /some/ software, but not all) GPL'ing Python would be a very bad thing. Guido has always intended for people to do whatever they want with Python, including using it in everything from closed source, proprietary, big-$$$ software to completely free software.
I guess I don't understand how licensing Python under the GPL would prevent people from writing proprietary software in Python. Compiling a program using gcc doesn't require that the program be GPL'd. Michael Bernstein.