Well this is interesting… web.py has been released into the Public Domain. I would have expected the usual GPL or GPLv3 instead.

Scott seems to like the change:

What hinders me however, was it’s AGPL licensed. You were required to release your source code, even though it only provides web services. This has been fixed by that recent announcement. It is now in public domain, i.e. no one is claiming the rights to own web.py, and it can be used for whatever course, business or private.

I’ve always thought the GPL was less than ideal for web frameworks, at least given my understanding of how it works. But I’m certainly no expert.

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