On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:32:22PM -0500, David Binger wrote:
> The best information I have is that the Quixote license is thought by
> an authoritative person not to be gpl compatible, and I believe the only
> problematic part is the part about Virginia.  I think the gpl-compatible
> variant would say something like "to the extent that ... federal ..
> does not
> apply, ... Virginia ...."
>
> Is there a practical impact of this difference?
> If so, please tell me about it.

The relevant link is:

http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html#PythonOld

License of Python 1.6b1 and later versions, through 2.0 and 2.1
        (this is the CNRI license)

"This is a free software license but is incompatible with the GNU
GPL. The primary incompatibility is that this Python license is
governed by the laws of the "State of Virginia", in the USA, and the
GPL does not permit this."

Another relevant link (describing FSF counsel's issue with the
"applicable law provision").

http://www.python.org/2.1/fsf.html

2.0.1 and 2.1.1 subsequently got license changes that made them again
GPL compatible.

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