| Sorry... what? > The notion that the Python core devs get to decide when Python 2 should stop being used is not cool. They don't. They just won't support it anymore, nor provide updates for it. > Under the freedoms provided by Free Software licensing, users who have a need to continue to use Python 2 should be able pool their effort to continue to support Python 2. They can, just not under the name of Python, as this name is owned by the Python Software Foundation. Similarly Canonical would crack down on someone opening a project 'Ubuntu12', continuing to support Ubuntu 12.x versions. > There was an effort called Python 2.8 to do this, but the Python Software Foundation made it change its name and I don't recall what the new name is. And the people who decided to do this are well within their rights to do so - it is free software after all. Just - as explained in the last paragraph - not with the name Python. This isn't only to prevent the brand 'Python' to be influenced by a project out of the reach of the foundation, but also to prevent confusion for newcomers. |