The Python 1.6 License Explained

[Neil Hodgson]

>       CNRI claims copyright in Python code and documentation from
>       releases 1.3 through 1.6 inclusive.  However, for a number of
>       technical reasons, CNRI never formally licensed this work for
>       Internet download, although it did permit Guido to share the
>       results with the Python community. *** As none of this work was
>       published either***, there were no CNRI copyright notices placed on

   [My *s] Looks like it was published to me. It was made publically
available. CNRIs web servers transmitted the work. How can they possibly
contend that it was not published?

   Neil