License state

Susanne Lefvert lefvert at mcs.anl.gov
Tue May 13 09:41:36 CDT 2003


Ok, I thought this was the actual license since it is included in the 
wxPython source, I missed the wxWindows part.  

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

> 
> Yeah, that's the wxWindows license, I found 3 of those in the wxPython
> source :-).  I'm wondering what the wxPython license is...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Ivan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Susanne Lefvert [mailto:lefvert at mcs.anl.gov] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:17 AM
> > To: Ivan R. Judson
> > Cc: ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: License state
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I found the attached license file in my copy of 
> > wxPythonSrc-2.3.3.1/docs. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 13 May 2003, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > I'm just doing another pass at making sure out copyrights/license 
> > > state are correct in prep for final. This is the list of 
> > software we 
> > > require, that I came up with:
> > > 
> > > License state:
> > > 
> > >  - Python 2.2 -- OSF, GPL Compatible, no copyleft
> > >  - wxWindows -- LGPL (libraries), BSD (documentation), GPL (?)
> > >  - wxGTK -- ?
> > >  - wxPython -- ?
> > >  - Logging -- BSD-style
> > >  - pyIPC - LGPL
> > >  - pyOpenSSL - LGPL
> > >  - Globus - BSD-derived
> > >  - pyGlobus - BSD-derived
> > >  - rat - BSD-style
> > >  - vic - BSD-style
> > >  - OpenMASH - BSD
> > > 
> > > Questions I think we have to tackle:
> > > 
> > > What's missing?
> > > 
> > > What gets packaged up as AGTk and what's packaged as pre-requisite?
> > > 
> > > My goal would be to be minimize constraining licenses (GPL/LGPL) in 
> > > favor of more open BSD style licenses. However, it would 
> > appear some 
> > > of our choices will make that difficult :-).
> > > 
> > > If we can be sure that anything packaged as part of the 
> > actual AGTk is 
> > > AGTkPL compatible (aka BSD compatible) that'd be ideal. Then the 
> > > possible pre-requisite software bundle can have it's own licensing.
> > > 
> > > I'm assuming at some level two packages per platform 1) 
> > prerequisite 
> > > stuff (but specific to AGTk) and 2) AGTk and related stuff.  Let me 
> > > know if that makes sense or if you have other opinions.
> > > 
> > > --Ivan
> > > 
> > > PS -- if anyone can verify the licensing of wxPython and 
> > wxGTK that'd 
> > > be great.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 




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