[py-dev] re-licensing to LGPL

[holger krekel]

Hi Harald, 

nice to hear from you!

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 15:21 +0200, Massa, Harald Armin wrote:
> Holger,
> 
> the most practical reason:
> 
> py.test should become the standard testing package for Python. There is no
> better.
>
> the best of breed belongs to.... the standard library.
> 
> and therefore the Python license is required, else it will be a non-starter.
>
> IF py.test does not want to become the best of breed of testing packages,
> what is the reason to exist, anyway?

wow, thanks for the appreciation!  I heart Guido at Pycon 2008 saying that 
only "stable" software should enter the standard library.  He added 
that in biology stable means dead.  py.test is in motion and 
aims to work with many Python interpreters and environments.  

In fact, i rather believe that the python distribution and
packaging world needs to change and improve instead of trying 
to push more stuff into a centralized library released with
the top-level-version of CPython.  Thankfully, Tarek Ziade 
and his fellowship of the packaging is moving along :)

best,
holger