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Re: a python license problem?

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Jayden <jayden.shui@gmail.com> writes:

> Python is under GPL compatible. If I develop a python code

If you write new code, without deriving your work from the code of
Python itself, then the license of the Python code cannot affect what
you many do with what you wrote – because the copyright on Python does
not affect works not derived from it.

Despite the wishes of copyright maximalists (and the PSF are not
copyright maximalists, to my knowledge), there are still limits to the
scope of copyright.

> If python is under GPL, is the answer different? Thanks a lot!!

Python is not under GPL. But unless you are deriving a work from Python
and distributing the result, that doesn't alter the answer.

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Ben Finney

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a python license problem? Jayden <jayden.shui@gmail.com> - 2012-09-10 19:58 -0700
  Re: a python license problem? Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2012-09-10 20:16 -0700
  Re: a python license problem? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-09-12 02:03 +1000
    Re: a python license problem? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-09-11 13:46 -0400

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