[Catalog-sig] [PSF-Board] Troubled by changes to PyPI usage agreement

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Jan 24 00:51:52 CET 2010


On 1/23/2010 5:03 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> Indeed, that's what we are discussing here. And, I can only
> repeat myself: anybody can download the data and redistribute
> it in any way they like. This is how it is, and how it should
> be.

Many sites have the restriction that people can download for own use but 
*not* redistribute, at least not publicly. And people should *not* be 
able to 'redistribute in any way they like', for instance with claim of 
authorship or copyright or malware attached.




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