On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 13:23, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > As Simon pointed out, while some organisations do work that way, the PSF > isn't one of them. > > The PSF only requires that the code be contributed under a license that > then allows us to turn around and redistribute it under a different open > source license without requesting additional permission from the > copyright holder. Even if the contributed code as in this case is a method in an existing file? How does that work, how do they keep ownership of one method in the threading.py method? :-) > Assuming the subject line relates to the code that you would like to > contribute though, that particular change is unlikely to happen - 2.6 is > in maintenance mode and changing RLock from a Python implementation to > the faster C one is solidly in new feature territory. Although a > backport of the 3.2 C RLock implementation to 2.7 could be useful, I > doubt that backporting code provided by an existing committer would be > the subject of this query :) Ah. I probably misunderstood what the suggested contribution was. Maybe it was a separate file, which I didn't get. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64
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