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

The LICENSE.txt file is "just" the Python license, which has a rather 
convoluted history.  Newer contributions are all under an Apache-style license 
from the individual contributors.  My understanding (but I'm not a lawyer) is 
that everything in the distribution has been vetted as available for use under 
the LISCENSE.txt, which includes commercial use.  If you believe that the 
language either in that file or on the web site does not convey that legally, 
then p...@python.org is who you need to contact.  On the development side, the 
most we can do is update a license if someone figures out that it is 
appropriate to do so.

For the website text, there's a mailing list listed on the mail.python.org 
page.  There's a project ongoing to make updating the web site easier, but 
currently there aren't very many developers who do web site updates, and such 
updates are not tracked on this tracker, just on that mailing list.  (Yes, this 
is not ideal, but it is where we are at right now.)  I've added one of those 
devs as nosy, perhaps he will have additional comments.

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nosy: +michael.foord
title: Berkeley DB License conditions are onerous (and poorly documented) -> Is 
LICENSES.txt up to date?

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