[Python-Dev] Changing the licence of statistics.py

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/14/2016 12:40 AM, Ned Deily wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2016, at 00:20, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> I'm the author of statistics.py, and for historical reasons it was
>> originally included in the standard library under the Apache licence.
>>
>> I now wish to change that and have it licenced under Python's standard
>> licence. Is there anything I need to do other than just remove the
>> Apache licence boilerplate from the file?
>
> I am not a lawyer nor an expert on this but you should read the following pages.  It's explained there that the standard licenses for code contributed to Python itself *should* be either the Apache 2.0 License or the Academic Free License v2.1.
>
> https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq

I believe you selected one of these when you signed the CA.

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Terry Jan Reedy