Article:		Guido van Rossum Speaks
Subject:		Question for Guido
Date:		2003-10-23 11:39:21
From:		anonymous2
How important do you think the liberal copyright license has been to Python's (and Zope's) success? Do you think that the GPL is actually handicapping the software that uses it? I am a big believer in public domain everything. betterdifferent.com Nate

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• Question for Guido
  2003-10-23 12:31:14  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  (This is actually Guido responding; I don't normally lurk here and have no time to register for an account.)
  
  I think the liberal Python license has been very important. The early user community was very vocal about this. For example, I expect that Digital Creations (now Zope Corp) would not have built their business on Python if it had been GPL'ed. (I can't speak for why Zope Corp chose the ZPL but I note that there are now a lot of other businesses who develop for Zope.)
  
  But there are also good points for GPL; read what the MySQL folks have to say about it.
  
  Public Domain doesn't even enter the picture.