On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:55 AM, <linux at gabriel-striewe.de> wrote: > I know the question is why anybody should want to do so, but I do > think that a project which depends on a non-free compiler is not free > after all. It's a philosophical question - Python is under a BSD style license, so the core devs (taken as a group) don't have a fundamental objection to the idea of closed source software, just a pragmatic view that open source is simply a better approach most of the time (both as a developer and as a user). This used to be more of an issue because MS didn't provide a decent free compiler for their platform. These days (since the release of Visual Studio Express), we expect that people willing to use (or support) a closed OS can cope with also using the free-as-in-beer closed compiler provided by the vendor of that OS. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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