[Python-legal-sig] Include BSD code into Python?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 25.09.2013 15:14, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:04 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 25.09.2013 12:56, Victor Stinner wrote:
>>> 2013/9/25 Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com>:
>>>> Maintaining the original copyright in python core is fine. Lots of
>> files have that, and BSD headers
>>>
>>> Ok, but where should we include the copyright notice for binary
>>> Python? In the documentation? I see that the following page contains
>>> many licenses:
>>>
>>> http://docs.python.org/dev/license.html
>>>
>>> Is it the right place to copy the copyright notice?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> BTW: I think we should have the same text in the main LICENSE
>> file, since that's being pulled in by the Windows installer.
>>
>> The LICENSE file is currently missing the section with the 3rd party
>> licenses listed in the docs. Perhaps just adding a link at the
>> end of the file, pointing to the above URL would be good.
>>
> 
> It makes sense to do vice versa - maintain additional LICENSE.ext file
> and include that into docs/ on doc building phase. Then alternative
> implementations of Python can also catch up with requirements and
> see what are major things to be ported to get Python running on target
> platforms.

Well, the license.rst isn't all that readable as main license
file, so it's probably better to include the 3rd party licenses
by reference rather than verbatim.

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