License. Went with Public Domain after all. #12

Author: chadwhitacre

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postgres.py

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 :py:mod:`psycopg2` or PostgreSQL.
 
 Importing :py:mod:`postgres` under Python 2 will cause the registration of
-typecasters in psycopg2 to ensure that you get unicode instead of bytestrings
-for text data, according to `this advice`_.
+typecasters with :py:mod:`psycopg2` to ensure that you get unicode instead of
+bytestrings for text data, according to `this advice`_.
+
+:py:mod:`postgres` is in the `public domain`_.
 
 
 Tutorial
@@ -137,6 +139,7 @@
 .. _GitHub: https://github.com/gittip/postgres
 .. _PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/postgres
 .. _this advice: http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/usage.html#unicode-handling
+.. _public domain: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
 .. _DB-API 2.0: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/
 .. _SQL injection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection