[Python-Dev] Applying the PSF license to the config-py project

[David Ascher]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     >> I cannot find good definitive documentation on how to use this
>     >> license in this situation.  What text do I need to place or reference
>     >> in my code?  If someone could direct me to that documentation (if it
>     >> exists) I would very much appreciate it.
> 
>     aahz> Just say that it uses the PSF License 1.0.
> 
> As in:
> 
>     This package is licensed under the terms of the PSF License, version
>     1.0.
> 
> ?  I had exactly the same question a few days ago (for the watch project on
> SF) but got distracted before I remembered to ask.  Maybe this is a question
> worth answering on the PSF section of python.org?

Alternatively use the BSD or MIT license.  There's nothing magical about 
the PSF license as far as I'm concerned, and its particular wording 
implies ownership by the PSF, so it's not 'generic', and it refers to 
other licenses, so another "liberal" license like BSD/MIT works (GPL 
isn't the same) in terms of the code being 'adoptable' by the PSF.

--david