Folks, After a Labor Day weekend ful excitement, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that both Python 1.6 and Python 2.0b1 will be released today (in *some* US timezone :-). The former from python.org, the latter from pythonlabs.com. The bad news is that there's still no agreement from Stallman that the CNRI open source license is GPL-compatible. See my previous post here. (Re: Conflict with the GPL.) Given that we still don't know that dual licensing will be necessary and sufficient to make the 2.0 license GPL-compatible, we decided not to go for dual licensing just yet -- if it transpires later that it is necessary, we'll add it to the 2.0 final license. At this point, our best shot seems to be to arrange a meeting between CNRI's lawyer and Stallman's lawyer. Without the lawyers there, we never seem to be able to get a commitment to an agreement. CNRI is willing to do this; Stallman's lawyer (Eben Moglen; he's a law professor at Columbia U, not NYU as I previously mentioned) is even harder to get a hold of than Stallman himself, so it may be a while. Given CNRI's repeatedly expressed commitment to move this forward, I don't want to hold up any of the releases that were planned for today any longer. So look forward to announcements later today, and get out the (qualified) champagne...! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)
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