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

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/4/2013 12:53 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 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.
>
I believe license questions can also be directed to the new legal-sig list
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-legal-sig