[Info-vax] Python and various libraries updated

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/6/2020 10:05 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-08-06 kl. 15:51, skrev Jean-François Piéronne:
>> But, I agree for those under, for example, the Apache 2.0 license, you
>> are allowed to distribute binaries without providing the source code
>> with it.
>>
>> Give me one example of a port done by VSI with sources available. Maybe
>> it's just so hidden that if haven't found.
>>
>> Maybe I should have said that the contribution of VSI to the open-source
>> world is so light that it is near null, I don't think that's change the
>> facts.
> 
> Maybe it is simply that the goal for VSI is not to contribute to the
> open soure world as such, just to provide their customers access to
> some open source tools that might be of value (to the customers).
> 
> I'm perfectly fine with that, *I* will never read any source code
> for Python, or any other open source tool...

Today most open source users have no intention of ever looking
at the source code.

But it is still in their interest that the code gets released.
In case VSI decides to drop support for the open source product,
then someone from the community may pick it up.

Arne