Hi Stefan,

You are right. I guess you indeed cannot escape the PSF license when using
python :).

Thank you,
Jakub

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 5:20 AM Stefan Behnel via lxml - The Python XML
Toolkit <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jakub Kulik schrieb am 17.07.26 um 12:09:
> > On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 5:59 PM Stefan Behnel wrote:
> >> Jakub Kulik schrieb am 14.05.26 um 12:10:
> >>> The latest version of lxml introduced _difflib.py, which is taken (as
> the
> >>> comment on the top suggests) from Python 3.14 sources. The file
> mentions
> >>> no licensing information, thus appearing BSD Licensed like the rest of
> lxml
> >>> sources, but since it's from Python, I presume it should be PSF
> licensed?
> >>> Should the PSF License be mentioned in e.g. LICENSES.txt?
> >>
> >> Right, I'll add a note. Thanks for mentioning it.
> >>
> >> Obviously, users of Python cannot practically object to the terms of the
> >> PSF-License, so this is mostly cosmetics for completeness…
> >
> > That makes sense - although what about somebody using e.g. PyPy? That one
> > is licensed under MIT and not PSF license.
> PyPy copies and reuses the largest part of the CPython stdlib, pretty much
> all Python modules, probably also including difflib.
>
> Stefan
>
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