[Off topic] allowed to put Python material on the Web?

[Neelakantan Krishnaswami]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:37:50 -0800, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>Sheila King wrote:
>
>> Technically, once the messages are posted to Usenet, anyone can
>> archive and copy them.
>	...
>> Authors of Usenet posts still retain copyright to
>> their own material.
>
> These two statements are inconsistent with one another.  (The latter
> is the one that is correct, by the way.)

No, they're not. 

When someone posts a message they have to grant permission to people
to copy, archive and redistribute their messages -- since a) that's
how Usenet works, b) since posting to Usenet is wholly voluntary, and
c) judges and courts are not entirely stupid.

But a wide grant of permission isn't the same thing as losing
copyright, as things like the X source license demonstrate.


Neel