Copyright and License

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
> If you assert copyright, you're making a legal claim.  If you
> want to avoid lawyers, avoid making legal claims <wink>.

[Neil Schemenauer]
> What about significant contributions to Python?  Do you have to
> sign the CNRI copyright assignment form of you place your code in
> the public domain?

The CNRI forms

    http://www.python.org/patches/bugrelease.html
    http://www.python.org/patches/wetsign.html

don't ask you to assign copyright, just to give CNRI a broad, no-cost
license.  Since the only discernible purpose is to create enough smoke to
discourage suing CNRI, yes, they want the forms from everyone.  It's not
your software they're worried about, it's you <wink>.

even-bots!-ly y'rs  - tim