Apologies if this is a little off-topic for python-dev, but it seemed like the best place to ask and get the attention of those needed. I am championing a patch to improve Django's support for numeric types by using Decimals with numeric columns and floats with double precision columns, rather than the current rather unpredictable behaviour (which depends on the particular python version and database backend being used). It has been proposed[1] to include decimal.py from the Python 2.5 distribution with Django, to ensure consistent and compatible behaviour between Python 2.3 and Python >= 2.4[2]. Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote in response to this proposal """ In order for this to be accepted, we need to know: * What is the license for the decimal module, and is said license compatible with the BSD license that Django uses? * Are the authors of the decimal module OK with us distributing it with Django? Our policy for including third party libraries requires an answer to both those questions. We won't include anything if it's not legal to do so, and we won't include anything that the original author doesn't want included. """ I'm addressing the second of Jacob's points here; would it be acceptable if the decimal module was distributed with Django? Andrew [1] http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/230892a9f9a71472 [2] Python's _threading_local.py module is already included with Django for the same compatibility reasons.