diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 21ec6ef397..6fd1477e3f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ Arduino IDE is developed and maintained by the Arduino team. The IDE is licensed
 
 ESP8266 core includes an xtensa gcc toolchain, which is also under GPL.
 
+ESP8266 core for Windows and macOS bundle a modified distribution of Python provided by the [python-build-standalone project](https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone), which is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0). [CPython](https://github.com/python/cpython) is licensed under the [Python Software Foundation License Version 2 (PSF-2.0)](https://docs.python.org/3/license.html). The bundled Python runtime and its statically linked libraries are distributed under the permissive open-source licenses, see the python-build-standalone project.
+
 Esptool.py was initially created by Fredrik Ahlberg (@themadinventor, @kongo), and is currently maintained by Angus Gratton (@projectgus) under GPL 2.0 license.
 
 [Espressif's NONOS SDK](https://github.com/espressif/ESP8266_NONOS_SDK) included in this build is under Espressif MIT License.
diff --git a/package/package_esp8266com_index.template.json b/package/package_esp8266com_index.template.json
index 4d44ddb0a2..1aa71317d3 100644
--- a/package/package_esp8266com_index.template.json
+++ b/package/package_esp8266com_index.template.json
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
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                      "name": "python3"
                   }
                ],
@@ -164,57 +164,64 @@
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