Python license (2.3)

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2005-04-14, Robert Kern schreef <rkern at ucsd.edu>:
> Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> Op 2005-04-13, Robert Kern schreef <rkern at ucsd.edu>:
>> 
>> I would do that if I were just writing code I thought others could
>> find usefull. I then would feel no problem "burdening" those users
>> with the same kind of license I found in the product I took some
>> code from. But I also think that readers of documentation should
>> be free to use any code included in any way they see fit.
>
> If they have issues with distributing code derived from Python, why are 
> they reading a Python tutorial?

Try and look it from a students viewpoint. He is learing languages,
algorithms and so on. Now he is ready to write his own program.
Chances are high that he will rely on examples from the
courses/documentation he read. It is just not practical for someone
like that to figure out all the possible different licenses under
which he can use the examples from the various documenation sources.

Now if this documentation refers to code from yet another source
with its own license, using it becomes an utter nightmare for
the student, because now he has to figure out which piece of
the code is original from the author of the documentation and
which was copied from the other source.

Consideration like this, let me come to the conclusion that
code included with documentation should come with no strings
attached for the students to reuse.

-- 
Antoon Pardon