[Python-Dev] Tarfile support

[Guido van Rossum]

> > > No time to review the code, but the feature set and docs look very
> > > good.
> > >
> > > Is there any chance that this can be contributed to the PSF under the
> > > standard PSF license?
> >
> > Lars, can you please give us your position about this?
> 
> I must admit that tarfile.py's licensing does not really matter to me. If 
> changing its license to PSF makes people's life easier, it is absolutely 
> okay.

Great!  I strongly prefer contributions under the standard PSF
license, so redistributors won't have to worry about separate
licensing conditions of individual components.

There's a draft contribution agreement at the PSF website:

  http://www.python.org/psf/psf-contributor-agreement.html

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)