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3 .. _history-and-license:
10 History of the software
11 =======================
13 Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting
14 Mathematisch Centrum (CWI, see http://www.cwi.nl/) in the Netherlands as a
15 successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python's principal author,
16 although it includes many contributions from others.
18 In 1995, Guido continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National
19 Research Initiatives (CNRI, see http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/) in Reston,
20 Virginia where he released several versions of the software.
22 In May 2000, Guido and the Python core development team moved to BeOpen.com to
23 form the BeOpen PythonLabs team. In October of the same year, the PythonLabs
24 team moved to Digital Creations (now Zope Corporation; see
25 http://www.zope.com/). In 2001, the Python Software Foundation (PSF, see
26 http://www.python.org/psf/) was formed, a non-profit organization created
27 specifically to own Python-related Intellectual Property. Zope Corporation is a
28 sponsoring member of the PSF.
30 All Python releases are Open Source (see http://www.opensource.org/ for the Open
31 Source Definition). Historically, most, but not all, Python releases have also
32 been GPL-compatible; the table below summarizes the various releases.
34 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
35 | Release | Derived from | Year | Owner | GPL compatible? |
36 +================+==============+===========+============+=================+
37 | 0.9.0 thru 1.2 | n/a | 1991-1995 | CWI | yes |
38 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
39 | 1.3 thru 1.5.2 | 1.2 | 1995-1999 | CNRI | yes |
40 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
41 | 1.6 | 1.5.2 | 2000 | CNRI | no |
42 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
43 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 2000 | BeOpen.com | no |
44 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
45 | 1.6.1 | 1.6 | 2001 | CNRI | no |
46 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
47 | 2.1 | 2.0+1.6.1 | 2001 | PSF | no |
48 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
49 | 2.0.1 | 2.0+1.6.1 | 2001 | PSF | yes |
50 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
51 | 2.1.1 | 2.1+2.0.1 | 2001 | PSF | yes |
52 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
53 | 2.2 | 2.1.1 | 2001 | PSF | yes |
54 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
55 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.1 | 2002 | PSF | yes |
56 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
57 | 2.1.3 | 2.1.2 | 2002 | PSF | yes |
58 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
59 | 2.2.1 | 2.2 | 2002 | PSF | yes |
60 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
61 | 2.2.2 | 2.2.1 | 2002 | PSF | yes |
62 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
63 | 2.2.3 | 2.2.2 | 2002-2003 | PSF | yes |
64 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
65 | 2.3 | 2.2.2 | 2002-2003 | PSF | yes |
66 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
67 | 2.3.1 | 2.3 | 2002-2003 | PSF | yes |
68 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
69 | 2.3.2 | 2.3.1 | 2003 | PSF | yes |
70 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
71 | 2.3.3 | 2.3.2 | 2003 | PSF | yes |
72 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
73 | 2.3.4 | 2.3.3 | 2004 | PSF | yes |
74 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
75 | 2.3.5 | 2.3.4 | 2005 | PSF | yes |
76 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
77 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2004 | PSF | yes |
78 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
79 | 2.4.1 | 2.4 | 2005 | PSF | yes |
80 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
81 | 2.4.2 | 2.4.1 | 2005 | PSF | yes |
82 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
83 | 2.4.3 | 2.4.2 | 2006 | PSF | yes |
84 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
85 | 2.4.4 | 2.4.3 | 2006 | PSF | yes |
86 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
87 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2006 | PSF | yes |
88 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
89 | 2.5.1 | 2.5 | 2007 | PSF | yes |
90 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
91 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.1 | 2008 | PSF | yes |
92 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
93 | 2.5.3 | 2.5.2 | 2008 | PSF | yes |
94 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
95 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2008 | PSF | yes |
96 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
97 | 2.6.1 | 2.6 | 2008 | PSF | yes |
98 +----------------+--------------+-----------+------------+-----------------+
102 GPL-compatible doesn't mean that we're distributing Python under the GPL. All
103 Python licenses, unlike the GPL, let you distribute a modified version without
104 making your changes open source. The GPL-compatible licenses make it possible to
105 combine Python with other software that is released under the GPL; the others
108 Thanks to the many outside volunteers who have worked under Guido's direction to
109 make these releases possible.
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303 The :mod:`_random` module includes code based on a download from
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305 the verbatim comments from the original code::
307 A C-program for MT19937, with initialization improved 2002/1/26.
308 Coded by Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto.
310 Before using, initialize the state by using init_genrand(seed)
311 or init_by_array(init_key, key_length).
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352 The :mod:`socket` module uses the functions, :func:`getaddrinfo`, and
353 :func:`getnameinfo`, which are coded in separate source files from the WIDE
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384 Floating point exception control
385 --------------------------------
387 The source for the :mod:`fpectl` module includes the following notice::
389 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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423 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
426 MD5 message digest algorithm
427 ----------------------------
429 The source code for the :mod:`md5` module contains the following notice::
431 Copyright (C) 1999, 2002 Aladdin Enterprises. All rights reserved.
433 This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
434 warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
435 arising from the use of this software.
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447 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
452 Independent implementation of MD5 (RFC 1321).
454 This code implements the MD5 Algorithm defined in RFC 1321, whose
456 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt
457 The code is derived from the text of the RFC, including the test suite
458 (section A.5) but excluding the rest of Appendix A. It does not include
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462 The original and principal author of md5.h is L. Peter Deutsch
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464 that follows (in reverse chronological order):
466 2002-04-13 lpd Removed support for non-ANSI compilers; removed
467 references to Ghostscript; clarified derivation from RFC 1321;
468 now handles byte order either statically or dynamically.
469 1999-11-04 lpd Edited comments slightly for automatic TOC extraction.
470 1999-10-18 lpd Fixed typo in header comment (ansi2knr rather than md5);
471 added conditionalization for C++ compilation from Martin
472 Purschke <purschke@bnl.gov>.
473 1999-05-03 lpd Original version.
476 Asynchronous socket services
477 ----------------------------
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481 Copyright 1996 by Sam Rushing
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508 Copyright 2000 by Timothy O'Malley <timo@alum.mit.edu>
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569 Author: Zooko O'Whielacronx
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574 Author: Skip Montanaro
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594 UUencode and UUdecode functions
595 -------------------------------
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599 Copyright 1994 by Lance Ellinghouse
600 Cathedral City, California Republic, United States of America.
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617 Modified by Jack Jansen, CWI, July 1995:
618 - Use binascii module to do the actual line-by-line conversion
619 between ascii and binary. This results in a 1000-fold speedup. The C
620 version is still 5 times faster, though.
621 - Arguments more compliant with python standard
624 XML Remote Procedure Calls
625 --------------------------
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629 The XML-RPC client interface is
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