Python History and License
Catalog row in Vendor License Sources · Cited
- Kind
- License text
- Format
- HTML
- Document id
- PSF-2.0
- Applies to
- Canonical licence page of the CPython documentation (3.14.7 documentation set as retrieved): history of the software and GPL-compatibility table; PSF License Agreement Version 2; BeOpen, CNRI and CWI licence agreements for earlier releases; Zero-Clause BSD licence for code in the documentation; licences and acknowledgements for incorporated third-party software. Page states no effective date.
- Aliases
- History and License; PSF License Agreement; Python License
- Evidence
- PSF License clause 2 grant
- PSF License clause 2 notice condition
- PSF License clause 3 change summary
- Python licences let modified versions stay closed
- Most but not all Python releases are GPL-compatible
- GPL-compatible licences allow combination with GPL software
- PSF License clause 8 acceptance by use
- PSF License clause 6 termination
- PSF License clause 4 as-is basis
- PSF License clause 7 no trademark grant
- Documentation code dual licensed from 3.8.6
- Zero-Clause BSD permission
- Incorporated software under different licences
- Incorporated software list is incomplete
- Installers may include OpenSSL under Apache License v2
- expat bundled unless system expat configured