Re: Contributing initgroups upstream
Christian Theune <[email protected]>
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On 11/16/2009 05:04 PM, Andreas Jung wrote: > Am 16.11.09 16:51, schrieb Tres Seaver: >> Martijn Faassen wrote: >>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've just contributed a patch to CPython adding os.initgroups based on >>>> this extension module: >>>> >>>> http://svn.zope.org/Zope/trunk/src/initgroups/ >>>> >>>> The CPython ticket is here: >>>> >>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue7333 >>>> >>>> I don't think there should be any licensing issues, as the ZPL is >> pretty >>>> permissive and the code is very short. However, if there are, >> could the >>>> code in question be relicensed for CPython under the Python license? >> >>> I've passed this question along to the Zope Foundation. >> >> IMO, there isn't really much of anything "protectable" in that module: >> it is a micro-thin wrapper around a libc syscall. If I sat down to >> write the module from scratch, I bet I would come within a negligable >> diff (whitespace, ordering of #includes, etc.) of the same code. >> >> Just for belt-and-suspeders: as a ZF board member, I would certainly >> vote to contribute the code to Python. > Same here - discussing about this issue takes longer than writing the > code from scratch :) Another "me too". :) -- Christian Theune · [email protected] gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 0 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )