You seem to not understand how the freedoms of Free Software licensing work. You are absolutely able to go clone their git repo right now (https://github.com/p

You seem to not understand how the freedoms of Free Software licensing work. You are absolutely able to go clone their git repo right now (https://github.com/python/cpython https://github.com/python/cpython) and work on it as your own. You can create updates, backport fixes, etc. You can maintain that well after they cease supporting python 2.7. You may not call it Python though, because of trademarks.