Re: [Python-Dev] (Licensing question) backport of shutil.copyfile() functionality

2019-03-12 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:29 AM Terry Reedy wrote: > On 3/11/2019 10:54 PM, Inada Naoki wrote: > > >> Hello, > >> some time ago I contributed a couple of patches to speedup > shutil.copy*() functions: > >> https://bugs.python.org/issue33671 > >> https://bugs.python.org/issue33695 > > You retain c

Re: [Python-Dev] (Licensing question) backport of shutil.copyfile() functionality

2019-03-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:32:35PM -0700, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > If you might want some of this contributed back to Python later on, you > should not use the GPL. Giampaolo can always change the licence of his work later. You can't take away the GPL from work you've already released, but you

Re: [Python-Dev] (Licensing question) backport of shutil.copyfile() functionality

2019-03-12 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:55 PM Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 3:01 AM Glenn Linderman > wrote: > >> On 3/11/2019 4:35 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: >> >> Hello, >> some time ago I contributed a couple of patches to speedup shutil.copy*() >> functions: >> https://bugs.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] (Licensing question) backport of shutil.copyfile() functionality

2019-03-12 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 3:01 AM Glenn Linderman wrote: > On 3/11/2019 4:35 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: > > Hello, > some time ago I contributed a couple of patches to speedup shutil.copy*() > functions: > https://bugs.python.org/issue33671 > https://bugs.python.org/issue33695 > I would like to b

Re: [Python-Dev] (Licensing question) backport of shutil.copyfile() functionality

2019-03-11 Thread Terry Reedy
On 3/11/2019 10:54 PM, Inada Naoki wrote: Hello, some time ago I contributed a couple of patches to speedup shutil.copy*() functions: https://bugs.python.org/issue33671 https://bugs.python.org/issue33695 You retain copyright on the code you contributed. I would like to backport both functio

Re: [Python-Dev] (Licensing question) backport of shutil.copyfile() functionality

2019-03-11 Thread Inada Naoki
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 8:38 AM Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: > > Hello, > some time ago I contributed a couple of patches to speedup shutil.copy*() > functions: > https://bugs.python.org/issue33671 > https://bugs.python.org/issue33695 > I would like to backport both functionalities so that they can b

Re: [Python-Dev] (Licensing question) backport of shutil.copyfile() functionality

2019-03-11 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Things in the standard library are already covered by the PSF license so that is what should be kept on backports from the stdlib to earlier versions. I do recommend keeping your backported stuff and new functionality separate (separate packages ideally, but that'll depend on how intertwined thing

Re: [Python-Dev] (Licensing question) backport of shutil.copyfile() functionality

2019-03-11 Thread Glenn Linderman
On 3/11/2019 4:35 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: Hello, some time ago I contributed a couple of patches to speedup shutil.copy*() functions: https://bugs.python.org/issue33671 https://bugs.python.org/issue33695 I would like to backport both functionalities so that they can be used on Python 2.7