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In 2000, the Python core development team moved to BeOpen.com<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slashdot.org/story/00/05/30/1931239/python-development-team-moves-to-beopencom|title=Python Development Team Moves to BeOpen.Com – Slashdot|website=slashdot.org|access-date=April 12, 2020|archive-date=April 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412054433/https://slashdot.org/story/00/05/30/1931239/python-development-team-moves-to-beopencom|url-status=live}}</ref> to form the BeOpen PythonLabs team.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beopen.com/company/team.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000815095541/http://www.beopen.com/company/team.html|archive-date = August 15, 2000|title = Open &#124; Your digital insurance partner}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://joeellsworth.com/resume/references/pybiz_beopen_partnership.pdf|title=Content Management Provider PyBiz Announces Strategic Partnership With BeOpen in Utilizing Python Programming Language|access-date=April 12, 2020|archive-date=April 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412054433/http://joeellsworth.com/resume/references/pybiz_beopen_partnership.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> CNRI requested that a version 1.6 be released, summarizing Python's development up to the point at which the development team left CNRI. Consequently, the release schedules for 1.6 and 2.0 had a significant amount of overlap.<ref name="newin-2.0" /> Python 2.0 was the only release from BeOpen.com. After Python 2.0 was released by BeOpen.com, Guido van Rossum and the other PythonLabs developers joined [[Zope|Digital Creations]].

The Python 1.6 release included a new CNRI license that was substantially longer than the CWI license that had been used for earlier releases. The new license included a clause stating that the license was governed by the [[law]]s of the [[State of Virginia]]. The [[Free Software Foundation]] argued that the choice-of-law clause was incompatible with the [[GNU General Public License]]. BeOpen, CNRI and the FSF negotiated a change to Python's [[free software license]] that would make it GPL-compatible. Python 1.6.1 is essentially the same as Python 1.6, with a few minor bug fixes, and with the new GPL-compatible license.<ref name="lib-history">{{cite web |url=https://docs.python.org/3/license.html |title=History and License |work=Python 3 Documentation |access-date=2022-12-07 |archive-date=December 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161205134352/https://docs.python.org/3/license.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Version 2==