> I tried to use the (GPL 2) Python program 'Traipse' [1] today but it
> crashed indicating that module pstats could not be found.  There is an
> extant Ubuntu bug for this [2] against Python 2.4 & 2.5 which claims
> that pstats is non-free.  However on checking the code at Python.org
> it appears that in Python 2.7 both profile.py [3] and pstats.py [4]
> are now under the Apache License 2.0 which is an FSF approved license.

It's fixed upstream, see http://bugs.python.org/issue12417 for details.

> Could someone point me at the process for getting package
> python-profiler for python 2.7 reviewed and included in Trisquel as
> the pstats is module is part of Python Core.  I'm prepared to do the
> license checking etc. if once more someone will point me at the 101
> for doing this.

It would be better to just not remove it and have it in the package with
Python and the rest of its standard library.  (Non-Debian-based distros
which I know do this, although Parabola GNU/Linux-libre also patches
these modules and their documentation to have newer licensing notices.)

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