[Python-Dev] Python CVS License ?

[Guido van Rossum]

> I was wondering what the license terms are for the current
> CVS snapshot... 
> 
> There's a lot of code in there which carries
> its own license or copyright, e.g. the Unicode stuff still
> only has the note "(c) Copyright CNRI, All Rights Reserved.
>  NO WARRANTY." and the SRE modules are "Copyright (c) 1997-2000 by
> Secret Labs AB.  All rights reserved.".
> 
> As it stands, I guess the current CVS tree is not legally
> copyable or usable by anyone who wants decent Unicode support.

And that's probably a good thing.  It's a development tree -- please
don't make releases of it!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/)