[Catalog-sig] [PSF-Board] Troubled by changes to PyPI usage agreement

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> The second version does seem much more user-friendly, somehow, and
>> should calm fears about potential abuse of content by the Foundation.
>>
>> Are we going to go with that?
> 
> Not without legal advise. I would hope that users will also get
> permission to make copies of the content uploaded to PyPI, without
> having to study the license conditions of each and every packet
> that they may want to copy (and they may actually have to make a copy
> first to find out what the licensing conditions are).
>
> So ISTM that MAL's version is *less* user-friendly (at least, to the
> users of PyPI who actually want to use the packages that get uploaded).

If you read the text, you'll notice that nothing will change for
PyPI users.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

Professional Python Services directly from the Source  (#1, Jan 23 2010)
>>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ...        http://www.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ...             http://zope.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ...        http://python.egenix.com/
________________________________________________________________________

::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! ::::


   eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH  Pastor-Loeh-Str.48
    D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg
           Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611
               http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/