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Re: Python license



On Jan 04, 2011, at 07:13 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote:

>My problem is in python-cerealizer:
>
>,----
>| # Cerealizer
>| # Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Jean-Baptiste LAMY
>| # Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Eckersley
>| #
>| # This program is free software.
>| # It is available under the Python licence.
>`----
>
>Upstream  licensed  its  software  using  Python license  to  allow  the
>inclusion into Python.

I think this is essentially meaningless. ;)   The "Python license" is an
imprecise way to refer to the Python Software Foundation License that Python
itself is released under.  It is not correct to use that license unaltered in
third party libraries, even to allow its inclusion in Python.

For that, the PSF only accepts contributions licensed under the Academic Free
License v2.1, or the Apache License v2.0.  Together with a signed contributor
agreement, the code would then be relicensed under the PSF license for release
with Python.

All the gory details are in the following links:

http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/
http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq

Cheers,
-Barry

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