Perhaps the discussions about Python's licensing over at say comp.lang.python should be monitored. The informative postings seem to be from Guido van Rossum and Tim Peters. For example Guido van Rossum announced Python 1.6b1 in the posting with headers: From: Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Python 1.6b1 is released! Date: 05 Aug 2000 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Henry Jones --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Before you buy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]