[Python-Dev] Applying the PSF license to the config-py project (original) (raw)

David Ascher DavidA at ActiveState.com
Tue May 11 15:43:22 EDT 2004

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>> I cannot find good definitive documentation on how to use this >> license in this situation. What text do I need to place or reference >> in my code? If someone could direct me to that documentation (if it >> exists) I would very much appreciate it.

aahz> Just say that it uses the PSF License 1.0. As in: This package is licensed under the terms of the PSF License, version 1.0. ? I had exactly the same question a few days ago (for the watch project on SF) but got distracted before I remembered to ask. Maybe this is a question worth answering on the PSF section of python.org?

Alternatively use the BSD or MIT license. There's nothing magical about the PSF license as far as I'm concerned, and its particular wording implies ownership by the PSF, so it's not 'generic', and it refers to other licenses, so another "liberal" license like BSD/MIT works (GPL isn't the same) in terms of the code being 'adoptable' by the PSF.

--david

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