R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

Ah, I see.

No, the docs are correct, I'm the one who was mistaken.  I thought the license 
page was on www.python.org, rather than docs.python.org.  Developers *do* have 
full and easy access to docs.python.org, and we do track doc bugs here.

As with the rest of our documentation, the license documentation page is "more 
complete" than the source version.  (It's actually not in theory, it's just 
that it is collected all in one place...but the docs are shipped in the release 
tarballs, so the info is included in the distribution regardless).  

The license docs, unlike most of the rest of the docs, don't have 'version 
added' and 'deprecated' tags, so you have to refer to license page that relates 
to the specific version of python you are looking at.  However, it is not clear 
to me (given your BSDDB example) that this is in fact the case.  So I'm 
re-opening the issue hoping someone will be willing to do an audit.

But as you say, for due diligence you do have to look at the source as well as 
the docs, even if we fix this.

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stage: committed/rejected -> needs patch
status: closed -> open
title: Is LICENSES.txt up to date? -> BSDDB license missing from liscense page 
in 2.7.

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