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LWN: Guido van Rossum: The State of Python

“I’ve placed the slides of my talk at the O’Reilly Open Source
Convention on-line at our BeOpen PythonLabs website.”

We’re also very close to announcing news regarding a new
Python license, Python 1.6 and 2.0 release schedules, and a
transition of the python.org website to hosting by VA
Linux.

“The announcement is waiting for final negotiations about GPL
compatibility of the new license; BeOpen’s CTO, Bob Weiner, is
confident that the issue will be resolved one way or another by
Friday.”

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