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As requested by Nick, I would like point to an ongoing discussion on Python licenses, affecting both OSI's and SPDXs realms, and request OSIs approval of two licenses.</div>
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As you know, the licensing history of Python is quite complex, and the current license consists of multiple other licenses representing the long history and the different ownerships of the project (CWI, CNRI, BeOpen, PSF).
<a href="https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2197" data-outlook-id="c8d254e9-cda2-4b06-8db7-bce26d43e3bc">
spdx/license-list-XML#2197</a> and an <a href="https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/topic/107252308" data-outlook-id="fe102278-b8de-497c-ada5-f66db752c1b7">
email to spdx-legal@</a> describe a bunch of intertwined problems around the identifiers of components of Python licenses. Recently, OSI fixed some of those already, thanks!</div>
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Now, I wonder about the status of the license SPDX describes as <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/Python-2.0.1.html" data-outlook-id="8715974d-cf48-4f8a-804a-70c055157f8c">
Python-2.0.1</a>. IIRC, the main difference between <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/Python-2.0.html" data-outlook-id="91fa97a6-11f5-41c0-87e0-e557e08fc45c">
Python-2.0</a> and Python-2.0.1 is in the CNRI part, making it GPL compatible (the Virginia clause). SPDX lists this updated sub-part as
<a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/CNRI-Python-GPL-Compatible.html" data-outlook-id="3567c9f9-2b49-47b0-81ea-244c5030e6b1">
CNRI-Python-GPL-Compatible</a>, a successor of <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/CNRI-Python.html" data-outlook-id="4e10b719-943a-4ba5-9168-f442c0eccf57">
CNRI-Python</a>.</div>
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Since Python 1.6.1 and 2.0.1, Python releases have been licensed under Python-2.0.1 (and recently additionally 0BSD for its documentation), while Python-2.0 has only been used for Python 1.6 and 2.0. So modern CPython releases would probably be best described
as being licensed under "Python-2.0.1 AND 0BSD". </div>
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But OSI only approved Python-2.0 as an Open Source license, as well as the old CNRI-Python part. This is why I suggest OSI to approve
<b>Python-2.0.1</b> and <b>CNRI-Python-GPL-Compatible</b> as Open Source licenses, and mark Python-2.0 and CNRI-Python as superseded. Is there any reason not to?</div>
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Best,</div>
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