[Python-Dev] Licensing

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> For example, if you look at some of the code that even Guido has
>>> submitted (e.g. pgen2), that's actually come in under Google's
>>> contributor agreement, rather than Guido's personal one. Presumably
>>> that was work he did on company time, so the copyright actually rests
>>> with Google rather than Guido.
>>
>> I hope you are misremembering some details. I did that work while at
>> Elemental Security (i.e. before I joined Google). It should have
>> Elemental Security's contributor agreement. I developed that code
>> initially for inclusion in Elemental's product line (as part of a
>> parser for a domain-specific language named "Fuel" which did not get
>> open-sourced -- probably for the better.
>
> Whoops, I got my timeline wrong (it did seem a little off when I wrote
> it - I think part of my brain was trying to tell me the dates didn't
> match up). I must have been thinking of something else I was working
> on recently that had Google's name in the header, most likely the abc
> module.

Yeah, that, and anything I contributed *after* pgen2.

> So apologies for the confusion - just s/pgen2/abc/ in my example to
> make it line up with my intent :)

No problem! Just setting the record straight.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)