License

Babel is licensed under a three clause BSD License. It basically means: do whatever you want with it as long as the copyright in Babel sticks around, the conditions are not modified and the disclaimer is present. Furthermore you must not use the names of the authors to promote derivatives of the software without written consent.

The full license text can be found below (Babel License).

Authors

Babel is written and maintained by the Babel team and various contributors:

Maintainer and Current Project Lead:

• Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher@active-4.com>

Contributors:

• Christopher Lenz <cmlenz@gmail.com>
• Alex Morega <alex@grep.ro>
• Felix Schwarz <felix.schwarz@oss.schwarz.eu>
• Pedro Algarvio <pedro@algarvio.me>
• Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@in-nomine.org>
• Philip Jenvey <pjenvey@underboss.org>
• Tobias Bieniek <Tobias.Bieniek@gmx.de>
• Jonas Borgström <jonas@edgewall.org>
• Daniel Neuhäuser <dasdasich@gmail.com>
• Nick Retallack <nick@bitcasa.com>
• Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
• Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com>
• Isaac Jurado <diptongo@gmail.com>
• Craig Loftus <craig@regulusweb.com>

Babel was previously developed under the Copyright of Edgewall Software. The following copyright notice holds true for releases before 2013: “Copyright (c) 2007 - 2011 by Edgewall Software”

In addition to the regular contributions Babel includes a fork of Lennart Regebro’s tzlocal that originally was licensed under the CC0 license. The original copyright of that project is “Copyright 2013 by Lennart Regebro”.

General License Definitions

The following section contains the full license texts for Flask and the documentation.

• “AUTHORS” hereby refers to all the authors listed in the Authors section.
• The “Babel License” applies to all the sourcecode shipped as part of Babel (Babel itself as well as the examples and the unit tests) as well as documentation.

Babel License

Copyright (C) 2013 by the Babel Team, see AUTHORS for more information.

All rights reserved.

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

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. 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.
3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.