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Stephen Hansen stephen at cerebralmaelstrom.com
Thu Jun 1 22:30:31 EDT 2000 
    That license isn't viral (like GPL :)). You have to include it in your
documentation, explaining thus that you're using Python with legal
permission..and that you can do anything you want with it :)

--S

<t_e_sanders at my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8h6rbt$ksv$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> Howdy. I'm interested in using Python within a commercial software
> package. Python's license seems to be really good about this, but I
> have a question about the copyright notice:
>
> > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
> > documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
> > provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
> > that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
> > supporting documentation...
>
> Do the terms of Python's distribution license require me to allow other
> users to copy and distribute my software? I would guess not, but
> inclusion of this notice in my package explicitly states so. There's
> obviously something I'm missing, (one of the downsides of being a
> developer, rather than a lawyer? :) Can anyone shed some light on this?
>
> Thanks much,
> Thomas Sanders
> t.e.sanders at usa.net
>
>
>
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