Re: MySQL Connector/J license change, was: > Re: [Jython-dev] Let's make an interim release

[Kevin J. B. <jyt...@sa...>]

Ben Burton wrote:

>> From discussions on the Debian list, there's apparently a 
>>GPL-incompatibility in the Jython license, and some Debian was concerned 
>>about the inclusion of the Readline stuff (because it links to the GPL'd 
>>gnu readline library).
>>    
>>
>
>The problem derives from the cpython 2.0 license used with jython.  From
>cpython's own license file:
>
[snip]
Thanks for the clarification & info, Ben.

However, I wasn't able to find any link/dependency to the CPython 2.0 
license in current Jython.

http://www.jython.org/license.html is the same as the LICENSE.txt file 
included in the Jython distribution, and doesn't cite the CPython 2.0 
license, rather the JPython 1.1 license, which has the (questionable) 
choice of law clause, the (derided) acceptance ceremony, and the (???) 
revocability clause.

Jython distributions do include parts of the appropriate CPython library 
(currently 2.1, moving to 2.2), and so the LICENSE.txt should probably 
cite the appropriate CPython license (with which we comply by retaining 
PSF copyright notices and including brief descriptions of changes to the 
Python library).

>Debian's solution to the readline problem was to not link against
>libreadline but instead libedit which is BSD licensed.  Bernhard Bablok
>was happy to take patches to his readline wrappers to ensure this was
>possible.
>
:-)

kb