License

wxPython is licenced under the "wxWindows Library Licence".

The wxWindows Library Licence is essentially the L-GPL (Library General Public Licence), with an exception stating that derived works in binary form may be distributed on the user's own terms. This is a solution that satisfies those who wish to produce GPL'ed software using wxWidgets, and also those producing proprietary software.

The wxWindows Library Licence has been approved by the Open Source Initiative.

In August 2005, an ambiguity in Clause 2 was removed (replaced "the user's" with "your") and the version bumped to 3.1.

The following sections present the actual text of the various license files. In general you may replace "wxWidgets" with "wxPython" in order to apply the license terms to your use of wxPython.

Preamble

The licencing of the wxWidgets library is intended to protect the wxWidgets
library, its developers, and its users, so that the considerable investment it
represents is not abused.

Under the terms of the original wxWidgets licences, you as a user are not
obliged to distribute wxWidgets source code with your products, if you
distribute these products in binary form. However, you are prevented from
restricting use of the library in source code form, or denying others the
rights to use or distribute wxWidgets library source code in the way intended.

The wxWindows Library License establishes the copyright for the code and
related material, and it gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or
modify the library. It also asserts that no warranty is given by the authors
for this or derived code.

The core distribution of the wxWidgets library contains files under two
different licences:

* Most files are distributed under the GNU Library General Public License,
  version 2, with the special exception that you may create and distribute
  object code versions built from the source code or modified versions of it
  (even if these modified versions include code under a different licence),
  and distribute such binaries under your own terms.

* Most core wxWidgets manuals are made available under the "wxWindows Free
  Documentation License", which allows you to distribute modified versions of
  the manuals, such as versions documenting any modifications made by you in
  your version of the library. However, you may not restrict any third party
  from reincorporating your changes into the original manuals.

wxWindows Library Licence

              wxWindows Library Licence, Version 3.1
              ======================================

Copyright (c) 1998-2005 Julian Smart, Robert Roebling et al

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this licence document, but changing it is not allowed.

                     WXWINDOWS LIBRARY LICENCE
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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Library General Public Licence as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the Licence, or (at your
option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Library General Public
Licence for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public Licence
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EXCEPTION NOTICE

1. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give
permission for additional uses of the text contained in this release of the
library as licenced under the wxWindows Library Licence, applying either
version 3.1 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version of the
Licence as published by the copyright holders of version 3.1 of the Licence
document.

2. The exception is that you may use, copy, link, modify and distribute
under your own terms, binary object code versions of works based on the
Library.

3. If you copy code from files distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public Licence or the GNU Library General Public Licence into a
copy of this library, as this licence permits, the exception does not apply
to the code that you add in this way.  To avoid misleading anyone as to the
status of such modified files, you must delete this exception notice from
such code and/or adjust the licensing conditions notice accordingly.

4. If you write modifications of your own for this library, it is your
choice whether to permit this exception to apply to your modifications.  If
you do not wish that, you must delete the exception notice from such code
and/or adjust the licensing conditions notice accordingly.

wxWindows Free Documentation License

              wxWindows Free Documentation Licence, Version 3
              ===============================================

Copyright (c) 1998 Julian Smart, Robert Roebling et al

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this licence document, but changing it is not allowed.

                 WXWINDOWS FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENCE
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