Licensing Status of Python 1.5

[Neil Hodgson]

> That it doesn't identify itself as "a license" via Jurisprudently Approved
> mumbo jumbo, coupled with its utter lack of restrictions on users,
> apparently makes it fall into a class of thingie some lawyers believe can
be
> unilaterally withdrawn at will by the licensor.  OTOH, it's not hard to
find
> blather that doesn't play along with that, even when it's 100% clear that
> the license was intended to be revocable (e.g., "A bare license ... being
> without consideration, may be revoked at pleasure, as long as it remains
> executory; 39 Hen. VI. M. 12, page 7;

   Well, if you're going to start quoting the bard,

Then 't is like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you gave me nothing for
't. -Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?

   Lear. 1. IV.

   Neil