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

[Ben B. <ba...@de...>]

> 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.

Well okay, call it what you will but AIUI the jpython 1.1 license is
more or less the old CRNI license that was once used with cpython.  I
could be wrong here but regardless of that it would seem to have the same
problems that caused cpython to change their license with python 2.0.1.

The link http://www.python.org/2.1/fsf.html from the cpython site seems
to explain some of these GPL compatibility problems; in particular the
acceptance ceremony and the choice of law clause both seem to be
problematic.

Ben. :)