[python-committers] Relicensing source code for inclusion in Python

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 04.04.2013 18:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In http://bugs.python.org/issue17618, I proposed adding a base85
> implementation to Python. Mercurial already has one (under the GPL), so
> I wrote to the authors (Brendan Cully and Mads Kiilerich) and got their
> informal approval for relicensing and inclusion in Python.
> 
> My question is the following: does anything formal need to be done to
> validate the relicensing? If yes, what?

They need to sign a contributor agreement and add the corrsponding
note to the source code file(s). That's all that's needed.

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