[OT] What is Open Source?

[Paul Rubin]

Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:
> > All the Python PEP's seem to contain a disclaimer about being placed
> > into the public domain.
> 
> Yup, and PEP 1 tells PEP authors to do this.
> 
> > Do you think Python has a problem because of this?
> 
> Not at all.  Perhaps it carries no legal force, perhaps it does:  IANAL, but
> Python couldn't care less either way.  The only people it might bother are
> the overly paranoid, fearing that if they reuse a PEP as if it were truly
> public domain, one of the authors may come after them brandishing a lawyer's
> opinion that the "public domain" declaration was without force.  Other
> countries would probably laugh that out of court, but you never know what a
> US court might decide.

So we'l have to start issuing PEP's with the disclaimer "I found this
PEP in my grandma's old trunk in the attic, dated April 1, 1920, so
it is out of copyright now."