From: Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com> To: python-announce-list@python.org Subject: Python 2.0.1c1 - GPL-compatible release candidate Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:30:42 -0400 With a sigh of relief I announce Python 2.0.1c1 -- the first Python release in a long time whose license is fully compatible with the GPL: http://www.python.org/2.0.1/ I thank Moshe Zadka who did almost all of the work to make this a useful bugfix release, and then went incommunicado for several weeks. (I hope you're OK, Moshe!) Note that this is a release candidate. We don't expect any problems, but we're being careful nevertheless. We're planning to do the final release of 2.0.1 a week from now; expect it to be identical to the release candidate except for some dotted i's and crossed t's. Python 2.0 users should be able to replace their 2.0 installation with the 2.0.1 release without any ill effects; apart from the license change, we've only fixed bugs that didn't require us to make feature changes. The SRE package (regular expression matching, used by the "re" module) was brought in line with the version distributed with Python 2.1; this is stable feature-wise but much improved bug-wise. For the full scoop, see the release notes on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=39267 Python 2.1 users can ignore this release, unless they have an urgent need for a GPL-compatible Python version and are willing to downgrade. Rest assured that we're planning a bugfix release there too: I expect that Python 2.1.1 will be released within a month, with the same GPL-compatible license. (Right, Thomas?) We don't intend to build RPMs for 2.0.1. If someone else is interested in doing so, we can link to them. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list