profile.py and pstats.py have an inappropriate copyright for some.  These files were contributed by a company that was acquired by Disney.  I have a patch that has passed Disney legal to resolve the problem.

The following is the cogent part of a conversation between Matthias Klose and myself.  He is including information about the issue:

 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-February/051450.html

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The current license for the Python profiler is not conforming to the
DFSG
(Debian free software guidelines).

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node829.html states

 "This permission is explicitly restricted to the copying and
 modification of the software to remain in Python, compiled Python,
 or other languages (such as C) wherein the modified or derived code
 is exclusively imported into a Python module."

The DFSG,
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-dfsg,
third paragraph state:

 "Derived Works
   The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must
   allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license
   of the original software."

- Does somebody knows about the history of this license, why it is
 more restricted than the Python license?
- Is there a chance to change the license for these two modules
 (profile.py, pstats.py)?
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