[Info-vax] Python and various libraries updated

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/8/2020 7:31 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-08-08 kl. 18:30, skrev Scott Dorsey:
>> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?=  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>> The thing is that many open source licenses -require- that any changes
>> or additions to their code be made available in source form...
> 
> Sure! But "made available" is not the same thing as "contributing to
> the open source world".
> 
> VSI can do additions and share them with the (few) VMS users that are
> interested. But they do not need to, what ever it is called, send it
> upstreams to the main source code repository.
> 
> I think there is a difference there...

The copyleft licenses typical have two requirements for modifications:
* the source code of the modifications must be made available to
   those getting the binary
* those receiving the source code of the modifications are allowed
   to share it with everybody

Arne