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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Apr 4 21:45:48 CEST 2013


Le jeudi 04 avril 2013 à 15:39 -0400, Terry Reedy a écrit :
> 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

Thanks, I had forgotten about that.

Regards

Antoine.




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