Still no new license -- but draft text available

Wed Aug 2 00:09:38 EDT 2000

We still don't have a new license for Python 1.6; Bob Kahn and Richard
Stallman need to talk before a decision can be made about how to deal
with the one remaining GPL incompatibility.  While we're all waiting,
we're preparing the CNRI 1.6 release at SourceForge (part of the deal
is that the PythonLabs group finishes the 1.6 release for CNRI).  The
last thing I committed today was the text (dictated by Bob Kahn) for
the new LICENSE file that will be part of the 1.6 beta 1 release.
(Modulo any changes that will be made to the license text to ensure
GPL compatibility.)

Since anyone with an anonymous CVS setup can now read the license
anyway, I might as well post a copy here so that you can all get used
to it...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)

======== LICENSE =======================================================

A. HISTORY OF THE SOFTWARE

Python originated in 1991 at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (CWI) in
the Netherlands as an outgrowth of a language called ABC.  Its
principal author was Guido van Rossum, although it included smaller
contributions from others at CWI and elsewhere.  The last version of
Python issued by CWI was Python 1.2.  In 1995, Mr. van Rossum
continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI) in Reston, Virginia where several versions of the
software were generated.  Python 1.6 is the last of the versions
developed at CNRI.

B. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR ACCESSING OR OTHERWISE USING Python 1.6, beta 1

1. CNRI LICENSE AGREEMENT 

        PYTHON 1.6, beta 1

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