[copyleft-next] popularity of copyleft

Richard Fontana fontana at sharpeleven.org
Mon May 20 02:44:45 UTC 2013


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:07:11PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> But another reason is that there doesn't seem to be an appropriate
> copyleft license for Python libraries. 
[...]
> (*) for an application of course I would use the GPL; but interestingly
> the Python ecosystem is composed of libraries much more than
> applications

That occurs to me too.

> Do note that "using a library" in the Python world can go very far,
> perhaps as far as monkeypatching the library in order to fix some
> undesired behaviour. The license (or its attached FAQ) has to be clear
> that such uses don't entail propagation of copyleft to the application
> as a whole.

That's useful to know.

thanks,

RF


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