From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:39:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note about copyright ownership and license situation.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~164
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=71500c8293a6862894cd657b8e41bbb43db6680d;p=python

Add note about copyright ownership and license situation.
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diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 85081f2174..8ee673ca3f 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ BeOpen PythonLabs team (www.pythonlabs.com).  Python 2.0 is the first
 release from PythonLabs.  Thanks to the many outside volunteers who
 have worked under Guido's direction to make this release possible.
 
+After Python 2.0 was released by BeOpen.com, Guido van Rossum and the
+other PythonLabs developers joined Digital Creations.  The intention
+is for all intellectual property added from this point on to be owned
+by the Python Software Foundation (PSF), a non-profit that will be
+created modeled after the Apache Software Foundation.  We will also
+attempt to get the ownership in previous versions transferred to the
+PSF, and straighten out the license to remove the GPL-incompatibility
+introduced by CNRI's Python 1.6 license.  In the interim, Guido van
+Rossum will own all new intellectual property, and no new license is
+added.
 
 
 BEOPEN.COM TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PYTHON 2.0