The Python Papers Edition One

[Jerry Hill]

On 11/25/06, Jerry Hill <malaclypse2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2006 15:09:11 -0800, tleeuwenburg at gmail.com
> <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, it's true that you can't resell copies of The Python Papers for
> > personal profits, but you may derive from it, reproduce and propagate
> > it. You're quite right to point it out.
>
> My problem with this is that I can't use anything in your publication
> when working on commercial software.  If I were to derive code from
> something in the Python Papers, my understanding is that I would be
> obligated to release it under a Creative Commons license.  In fact,
> even if all I do is read an article and then incorporate concepts from
> it in my code, my understanding is that I may be creating a derivative
> work.
>
> Since the code that I write for work belongs to my employer, and may
> someday be sold, I need to be careful about the licensing issues. They
> might not be very happy with me if I wrote software for them that
> ended up being encumbered with a license they didn't like.  I don't
> think there's much of a problem with Issue 1, since I don't think I'd
> end up copying the code in the 'Python Coding Idioms' article, and
> MontyLingua is GPL software and thus has its own licensing issues for
> commercial software.  Still, if there was a useful article on, say,
> database or web interfaces, I would have to avoid it.  If I have to
> avoid using any articles that might actually be useful in my
> professional life, I feel like I should probably just avoid the
> journal all together.  If I've misrepresented the relevant copyright
> issues, I'd be happy for someone to correct me.
>
> --
> Jerry
>