[Bug 554187] Review Request: shedskin - Python to C++ compiler

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--- Comment #12 from Thomas Spura <tomspur at fedoraproject.org> 2010-11-29 14:48:54 EST ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> "All code is released to the public domain. For business purposes, Murmurhash
> is under the MIT license."
> 
> I'm having trouble understanding what that actually means.  Is it public domain
> or not?  What are "business purposes"?  Why do software authors think they can
> just make random legal-sounding statements like that?

I don't know... I think using MIT directly and we are save, isn't it?
Furthermore the rest of shedskin/lib/* is MIT, so it would be best to do so
too...

> Being a separate upstream project (own version, release schedule, license,
> etc.) the murmurhash code would seem to run afoul of the bundled library
> policy.  It seems like a pretty clear exception (it's only 50 lines of code
> anyway) but the current policy has no automatic exemption based on size.
> 
> Can you file an exception request with FPC?

Done at:
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/39

I think a bundled lib is a header file or some other sorf of copylib (with or
without modifications). Shedskin is only copying one function, which is deeply
implemented into shedskin and not called in a header file, so this doesn't
comply with my 'definition' of a bundled lib...

So thanks for giving me the advice of asking FPC (wouldn't have done that
otherwise, to be honest...).

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