More Python licensing questions

[joneshenry at my-deja.com]

While browsing at the Python 1.6 web site
<URL: http://www.python.org/1.6/> I clicked on "view
license", which is a link to <URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1895.22/1011>.
This in turn brings up the web page:
<URL: http://www.handle.net/python_licenses/python1.6beta8-5-2000.html>.
I was struck by the phrase "python_licenses" in the URL.  Take a look
at the containing subdirectory.

Obviously the documents dated 12-Jul-00 predate the Python 1.6b1
license dated 04-Aug-00.  They also seem to contain language in
Sections 3 and 6 different from 1.6b1's.  The 1.6b1 license is
the final version hammered out in the negotiations with CNRI and
BeOpen with input from Open Source community leaders.

(If one were to click on the handles in the 12-Jul-00 documents,
the links would not resolve properly because they have TBD not
the proper number.  But if one manually inputs the handles
indicated in the documents, these work in a browser to access the
documents correctly.)

My understanding of handles is that handles are supposed to
be persistent.

Yes I know, only CNRI the copyright holder can answer questions
about their affairs.  I have sent them a snail mail letter,
not that they owe me a reply or anything.  But I wish someone
with real access could ask whether CNRI wants 1.5.2 under
something similar to the negotiated 1.6b1 license.


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