From 5b71d07d11a85bda297f75ca0a255aba5ce968ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Waldmann Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:45:34 +0100 Subject: add a new README.txt and LICENSE.txt --- LICENSE.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ README.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 LICENSE.txt create mode 100644 README.txt diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..640bc78 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +argparse is (c) 2006-2009 Steven J. Bethard . + +The argparse module was contributed to Python as of Python 2.7 and thus +was licensed under the Python license. Same license applies to all files in +the argparse package project. + +For details about the Python License, please see doc/Python-License.txt. + +History +------- + +Before (and including) argparse 1.1, the argparse package was licensed under +Apache License v2.0. + +After argparse 1.1, all project files from the argparse project were deleted +due to license compatibility issues between Apache License 2.0 and GNU GPL v2. + +The project repository then had a clean start with some files taken from +Python 2.7.1, so definitely all files are under Python License now. + diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e524c1b --- /dev/null +++ b/README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +The argparse module makes it easy to write user friendly command line +interfaces. + +The program defines what arguments it requires, and argparse will figure out +how to parse those out of sys.argv. The argparse module also automatically +generates help and usage messages and issues errors when users give the +program invalid arguments. + +As of Python >= 2.7, the argparse module is maintained within the Python +standard library. For users who still need to support Python < 2.7, it is +also provided as a separate package, which tries to stay compatible with the +module in the standard library, but also supports older Python versions. + +argparse is licensed under the Python license, for details see LICENSE.txt. + -- cgit v1.2.1