docs/source/license_and_copyright.txt

.. _license:

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License and Copyright 
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This files needs to be updated to reflect what the new COPYING.txt files says about our license and copyright!

IPython is released under the terms of the BSD license, whose general
form can be found at: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php. The full text of the
IPython license is reproduced below::

    IPython is released under a BSD-type license.

    Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Fernando Perez
    <[e-mail]>.

    Copyright (c) 2001 Janko Hauser <[e-mail]> and  
    Nathaniel Gray <[e-mail]>.

    All rights reserved.

    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
    are met:

    a. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

    b. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

    c. Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of any
    contributors to this software may be used to endorse or promote
    products derived from this software without specific prior written
    permission.

    THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
    "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
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    POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 

Individual authors are the holders of the copyright for their code and
are listed in each file.

Some files (DPyGetOpt.py, for example) may be licensed under different
conditions. Ultimately each file indicates clearly the conditions under
which its author/authors have decided to publish the code.

Versions of IPython up to and including 0.6.3 were released under the
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), available at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html.