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[Python-ideas] Pythonic Dates, Times, and Deltas

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Oct 15 02:51:43 CEST 2010 
"Daniel G. Taylor"
<dan at programmer-art.org> writes:

> Any idea why this hasn't made it into Python's standard library while
> being around for 13 years? Seems like it would be extremely useful in
> the standard distribution.

One barrier is that its license terms
<URL:http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/eGenix.com-Public-License-1.1.0.pdf>
are incompatible with redistribution under the terms of the Python
license.

I'd love to see the mx code released under compatible license terms, but
am not optimistic.

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