[Python-legal-sig] Copyright page in the documentation

Janzert janzert at janzert.com
Sat Nov 23 00:32:07 CET 2013


On 11/22/2013 5:50 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Refocussing on one of Anatoly's points (and without cross-posting :-)):
>
> The page "Copyright" in the documentation claims that the Python code
> and documentation is (c) the PSF
> (see http://docs.python.org/3/copyright.html ).
>
> However, this is not true, and it is not what the LICENSE says: the
> LICENSE says the PSF grants the rights to the end user (which is ok,
> thanks to the CLAs). The LICENSE doesn't claim the PSF owns the
> copyright (which it doesn't, since there's no copyright assignment).

 From the LICENSE file, PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2, 
Paragraph 2 in part reads:
> provided, however, that PSF's License Agreement and PSF's notice of copyright,
> i.e., "Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
> 2011, 2012, 2013 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved" are retained

Paragraph 1 also states that the license applies to both python source 
and documentation.

Janzert




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