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Sun Feb 13 15:23:38 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-February/108037.html

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:18:52 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If there is an essential subset of the API that the Twisted devs think
> would be a suitable replacement for asyncore, while providing a more
> straightforward migration path into Twisted itself, then it certainly
> makes sense to include it.

That subset would be the reactor (actually, the various reactor
implementations) and its close dependencies. However, that might
already amount to a sizeable chunk of code :-) (for good reason, of
course: even Twisted Core does much, much more than asyncore).

> The other possible sticking point I can see is that I don't know how
> Twisted's licensing works - is there anyone with the legal authority
> to appropriately license the code to the PSF for inclusion in the
> standard library?

Twisted's license is MIT-like so I don't think there would be any
so-called "licensing" problem. :-)

Regards

Antoine.

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