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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Robert Collins
<robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 17:03 +0000, exarkun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> On 10:54 am, robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >Hi, you've been CC'd to this because you have code of some sort within
>> >subunit.
>> >
>> >[snip]
>> >
>> >Concretely, I think the following would be appropriate:
>> >- put all the python code under the PSL [MIT]
>>
>> I'd encourage you to just skip to MIT/BSD for the Python code.  The PSL
>> is full of language about the PSF which doesn't really apply to
>> arbitrary Python projects.  Once you've filtered out all of that
>> inapplicable stuff, then it really is a lot like MIT/BSD.  If you've
>> already considered this, then feel free to ignore this message. :)  I
>> just wanted to point it out in case you weren't aware.
>>
>> Jean-Paul
>
> I've never actually looked at the PSL; having done so, and seeing that
> they ask for a contributor agreement [under apachev2] anyhow, its a
> little less appealing to go straight to PSL.
>
> So, I'm relicensing as dual BSD, Apache V2, because:
> - BSD is least restrictive
> - python, which is a big chunk of this project, requires artistic or
> apache v2
>
> I believe this is compatible everyones responses.
>

Cool.

jml