[docs] License on Python documentation textx

Georg Brandl georg at python.org
Fri May 20 10:01:15 EDT 2016


Hi Petr,

the Python documentation is distributable under the same license as the code,
given in the "History and License" section.

cheers,
Georg

On 05/20/2016 12:04 PM, Петр Калинин wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> What is the license for Python documentation found at https://docs.python.org/ ?
> 
> I've tried to find any information about it on the site itself, but did not
> succeed in it. The footer of the site gives a link
> to https://docs.python.org/3/copyright.html , which simply lists several
> copyrights and "All rights reserved"s and contains link
> to https://docs.python.org/3/license.html#history-and-license . However, the
> latter specified licenses for Python only, not for documentation.
> 
> The page https://docs.python.org/3/about.html also does not list eny explicit
> license.
> 
> Is the licenses listed
> at https://docs.python.org/3/license.html#history-and-license apply to Python
> documentation found at https://docs.python.org/ too? If not, then what is the
> exact license for the documentation?
> 
> Background: I'm writing a Telegram bot that will be able to provide python
> reference (for example, return re.match reference when user sends "re.match"),
> for this I parse docs.python.org <http://docs.python.org>. I definitely need and
> want to know the license of the texts to know whether this is a legitimate use
> and how should I properly give attribution.
> 
> -- 
> Petr Kalinin,
> petr at kalinin.nnov.ru <mailto:petr at kalinin.nnov.ru>
> 
> 
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