<div dir="ltr"><pre>Hi Thorsten,<br><br>The Free Software Foundation (generally considered <br>an expert on all things GPL-compatible)<br>disagrees with your interpretation of the GPL <br>and have explicitly approved recent Python licenses <br>
as GPL-copmatible (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Python">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Python</a>).<br>Note that the "Python License" they have on their website<br>(<a href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=License:Python2.0.1">http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=License:Python2.0.1</a>) is the full <br>
Python license stack which includes the historical modified CNRI and BEOPEN licenses<br>and not merely the PSF License Agreement at the top.<br><br>13 years ago the FSF did make CNRI change the wording of an earlier Python license<br>
<br><a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PythonOld">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PythonOld</a><br><a href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Python1.6b1">http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Python1.6b1</a><br>
<br>because it had an overly strong "governed in Virginia" clause but I'm using <br>the version of the CNRI which was weakened enough to satisify the FSF lawyers.<br><br>I'm not a copyright lawyer but I'm inclined to go with the judgment of<br>
the Free Software Foundation on this one. The CNRI and BEOPEN licenses are<br>ugly but must be included if you combine Python project code with a GPL-licensed<br>project ( <a href="https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq">https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq</a> ).<br>
<br>Best,<br><br>Trevor <br><br><br><br>> Hi Trevor,
>
> the CNRI snippet says that it is from Python 1.6.1. This is not compatible
> to GPL because of paragraph 7, which puts any disputes under the "federal
> intellectual property law of the United States (...) the law of the
> Commonwealth of Virginia". This is an additional restriction that is
> not allowed by the GPL.
>
> The BEOPEN snippet contains the same paragraph (6) for the "law of the
> State of California".
>
> So from my point of view you can not mix code under these CNRI and BEOPEN
> licenses with GPL code.
>
> The PSF snippet from Python 2.6.2 does not contain such paragraph and is
> fine.
>
> Thorsten</pre></div>