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Re: DFSG compliance of cx_freeze license? (was: Python Software Foundation License)

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On Tuesday, 21 January 2025 15:53:24 CET Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> 
> The size of the license text is rather short compared to the current
> version of PSF-2.0.

I presume that by PSF-2.0 you mean the licensing details found in debian/
copyright that largely reproduce the summary here:

https://docs.python.org/3/license.html#psf-license

> I find it nearly impossible to find out what the differences in detail
> are or were in the past.

I did find a brief mention of licensing in the release notes for version 4.0 
(September 2008):

"Modified license text to more closely match the Python Software Foundation 
license as was intended."

https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes-5x.html

Here is the commit that updated the licence for that release:

https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze/commit/
71aa0d59528969f299493836ac508dbc6ce721cf

The previous licence resembles the 3-clause BSD licence. I seem to remember 
that people liked to adopt the Python licensing, perhaps for some kind of 
"community spirit" or otherwise insubstantial reason, until it was suggested 
that the Python licence, complicated by all the messy institutional 
involvement, was a bad choice for other software.

Paul

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