Python's Legality

[Peter Johnson]

My opinion (of course), but looks like RobotPy (and other scripting languages such as Lua) will be legal for 2011:

COTS definition (page 8 of Section 1):
"For the purposes of the FRC, generally available software modules obtained from open sources (e.g. professional publications, commonly used FRC community-accessible web resources, industry source code repositories, etc.) that are not specifically affiliated with individual FRC teams shall be considered COTS items."

<R28> COTS items that are generally available may be used on the ROBOT.

Caveat emptor, of course. And keep in mind RobotPy is not supported by FIRST (so if you run into issues with RobotPy at a competition, there won't be staff there to help).