[issue17514] Add the license to argparse.py

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl added the comment:

> I'm not sure that's correct, unless only Steven has ever contributed
> to it. To be correct, you'd have to list all significant contributors.

Well, then add "and contributors" :)  But we have quite a few files with such a header (one person), which would be wrong.

> But still, the maintenance burden of per-file copyright headers
> (including the need to bump dates now and then) is non-negligible and
> doesn't seem worth the hassle.

Agreed.

For the OP, it's probably fine for Chromium to put a license header into their own copy of the file.

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