history and license history of the software python was created in the early by guido van rossum at stichting mathematisch centrum (cwisee principal authoralthough it includes many contributions from others in guido continued his work on python at the corporation for national research initiatives (cnrisee in may guido and the python core development team moved to beopen com to form the beopen pythonlabs team in october of the same yearthe pythonlabs team moved to digital creations (now zope corporationsee //www python org/psf/was formeda non-profit organization created specifically to own python-related intellectual property zope corporation is sponsoring member of the psf all python releases are open source (see various releases release thru thru and above derived from / year - - -now owner cwi cnri cnri beopen com cnri psf psf psf psf psf psf gpl compatibleyes yes no no no no yes yes yes yes yes notegpl-compatible doesn' mean that we're distributing python under the gpl all python licensesunlike the gpllet you distribute modified version without making your changes open source the gplcompatible licenses make it possible to combine python with other software that is released under the gplthe others don' thanks to the many outside volunteers who have worked under guido' direction to make these releases possible