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from BeOpen.com.

Following the release of Python 1.6, and after Guido van Rossum left

CNRI to work with commercial software developers, it became clear that

the ability to use Python with software available under the GNU Public

License (GPL) was very desirable. CNRI and the Free Software

Foundation (FSF) interacted to develop enabling wording changes to the

Python license. Python 1.6.1 is essentially the same as Python 1.6,

with a few minor bug fixes, and with a different license that enables

later versions to be GPL-compatible. Python 2.1 is a derivative work

of Python 1.6.1, as well as of Python 2.0.

After Python 2.0 was released by BeOpen.com, Guido van Rossum and the

other PythonLabs developers joined Digital Creations. All

intellectual property added from this point on, starting with Python

2.1 and its alpha and beta releases, is owned by the Python Software

Foundation (PSF), a non-profit modeled after the Apache Software

Foundation. See http://www.python.org/psf/ for more information about

the PSF.

Thanks to the many outside volunteers who have worked under Guido's

direction to make these releases possible.

B. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR ACCESSING OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON

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PSF LICENSE AGREEMENT

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1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Python Software Foundation

("PSF"), and the Individual or Organization ("Licensee") accessing and

otherwise using Python 2.1.1 software in source or binary form and its

associated documentation.

2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, PSF

hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide

license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly,

prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use Python 2.1.1

alone or in any derivative version, provided, however, that PSF's

License Agreement and PSF's notice of copyright, i.e., "Copyright (c)

Python 2.1.1 alone or in any derivative version prepared by Licensee.