On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@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. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)