Re: Question about Sine and Shtoom

[email protected] Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:41:44 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.python.quotient.dev
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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:54:39 -0300, David Pratt <[email protected]> wrote:

>Sine appears to incorporate many parts of Shtoom. Can you advise whether 
>Shtoom is inactive at this point and being replaced with Sine. Also Sine is 
>MIT where Shtoom appears to be LGPL. Is it just that Shtoom has not been 
>updated with the MIT license since components appear to be MIT and code is 
>out of step. Is it possible to use any of the older Shtoom under MIT?

It looks like we may not have documented something properly.  As far as I know, the portions of Sine which were derived from Shtoom have retained their LGPL license.  Shtoom is copyright Anthony Baxter, Sine (the new portion, anyway) is copyright Divmod, Inc.

So, no, it's not even possible to use the new Sine code under the MIT license, sorry.  Anthony chose this license deliberately because he does a lot of work with proprietary SIP stacks that get a lot of things wrong, and he didn't want it to be possible to subvert the maintenance of the SIP stack and start maintaining it privately.  Keep in mind that it is the *L*GPL though; you can invoke Shtoom (or Sine) from your own programs and use it as a library and the license should not affect you.