[Python-Dev] Licensing (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Jul 7 19:44:19 CEST 2010

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

For example, if you look at some of the code that even Guido has submitted (e.g. pgen2), that's actually come in under Google's contributor agreement, rather than Guido's personal one. Presumably that was work he did on company time, so the copyright actually rests with Google rather than Guido.

I hope you are misremembering some details. I did that work while at Elemental Security (i.e. before I joined Google). It should have Elemental Security's contributor agreement. I developed that code initially for inclusion in Elemental's product line (as part of a parser for a domain-specific language named "Fuel" which did not get open-sourced -- probably for the better. Whoops, I got my timeline wrong (it did seem a little off when I wrote it - I think part of my brain was trying to tell me the dates didn't match up). I must have been thinking of something else I was working on recently that had Google's name in the header, most likely the abc module.

Yeah, that, and anything I contributed after pgen2.

So apologies for the confusion - just s/pgen2/abc/ in my example to make it line up with my intent :)

No problem! Just setting the record straight.

-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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