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:

  • Aarni Koskela

  • Christopher Lenz

  • Armin Ronacher

  • Alex Morega

  • Lasse Schuirmann

  • Felix Schwarz

  • Pedro Algarvio

  • Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven

  • Philip Jenvey

  • benselme

  • Isaac Jurado

  • Tobias Bieniek

  • Erick Wilder

  • Jonah Lawrence

  • Michael Birtwell

  • Jonas Borgström

  • Kevin Deldycke

  • Jon Dufresne

  • Ville Skyttä

  • Jun Omae

  • Hugo

  • Heungsub Lee

  • Jakob Schnitzer

  • Sachin Paliwal

  • Alex Willmer

  • Daniel Neuhäuser

  • Hugo van Kemenade

  • Miro Hrončok

  • Cédric Krier

  • Luke Plant

  • Jennifer Wang

  • Lukas Balaga

  • sudheesh001

  • Jean Abou Samra

  • Niklas Hambüchen

  • Changaco

  • Xavier Fernandez

  • KO. Mattsson

  • Sébastien Diemer

  • alexbodn@gmail.com

  • saurabhiiit

  • srisankethu

  • Erik Romijn

  • Lukas B

  • Ryan J Ollos

  • Arturas Moskvinas

  • Leonardo Pistone

  • Hyunjun Kim

  • Alex Waygood

  • Maciej Olko

  • martin f. krafft

  • DS/Charlie

  • lilinjie

  • Johannes Wilm

  • Eric L

  • Przemyslaw Wegrzyn

  • Lukas Kahwe Smith

  • Lukas Juhrich

  • Nikita Sobolev

  • Raphael Nestler

  • Frank Harrison

  • Nehal J Wani

  • Mohamed Morsy

  • Krzysztof Jagiełło

  • Morgan Wahl

  • farhan5900

  • Sigurd Ljødal

  • Andrii Oriekhov

  • rachele-collin

  • Lukas Winkler

  • Juliette Monsel

  • Álvaro Mondéjar Rubio

  • ruro

  • Alessio Bogon

  • Nikiforov Konstantin

  • Abdullah Javed Nesar

  • Brad Martin

  • Tyler Kennedy

  • CyanNani123

  • sebleblanc

  • He Chen

  • Steve (Gadget) Barnes

  • Romuald Brunet

  • Mario Frasca

  • BT-sschmid

  • Alberto Mardegan

  • mondeja

  • NotAFile

  • Julien Palard

  • Brian Cappello

  • Serban Constantin

  • Bryn Truscott

  • Chris

  • Charly C

  • PTrottier

  • xmo-odoo

  • StevenJ

  • Jungmo Ku

  • Simeon Visser

  • Narendra Vardi

  • Stefane Fermigier

  • Narayan Acharya

  • François Magimel

  • Wolfgang Doll

  • Roy Williams

  • Marc-André Dufresne

  • Abhishek Tiwari

  • David Baumgold

  • Alex Kuzmenko

  • Georg Schölly

  • ldwoolley

  • Rodrigo Ramírez Norambuena

  • Jakub Wilk

  • Roman Rader

  • Max Shenfield

  • Nicolas Grilly

  • Kenny Root

  • Adam Chainz

  • Sébastien Fievet

  • Anthony Sottile

  • Yuriy Shatrov

  • iamshubh22

  • Sven Anderson

  • Eoin Nugent

  • Roman Imankulov

  • David Stanek

  • Roy Wellington Ⅳ

  • Florian Schulze

  • Todd M. Guerra

  • Joseph Breihan

  • Craig Loftus

  • The Gitter Badger

  • Régis Behmo

  • Julen Ruiz Aizpuru

  • astaric

  • Felix Yan

  • Philip_Tzou

  • Jesús Espino

  • Jeremy Weinstein

  • James Page

  • masklinn

  • Sjoerd Langkemper

  • Matt Iversen

  • Alexander A. Dyshev

  • Dirkjan Ochtman

  • Nick Retallack

  • Thomas Waldmann

  • xen

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 Babel 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) 2013-2023 by the Babel Team, see AUTHORS for more information.

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

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