[Inpycon] Copyright violation of PyCon India website by blockchain 2017 conference organizer

[Kracekumar Ramaraj]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
wrote:

> I'm personally for being liberal with this. We haven't put up a license on
> the github  repository for the assets or the website so my understanding is
> that by default, reuse is not permitted.
>
> I think the correct way to move forward is to put up a liberal license on
> the pssi repositories so that others can use the design and to tell the
> blockchain people that while their initial copy over was a violation of the
> copyright, we've changed the terms so that it's no longer a problem.
>
> That would solve it. Correct?


+1 for liberal license.

It's good sign to see new communities looking upto Python community.


>
>
> On 2017-11-29 13:25, vijay kumar wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I just noticed that blockchain 2017 conference team have copied PyCon
>> India 2016 code, logo and design without consulting and confirming
>> with PyCon India community or PSSI. Just the color, content and logo
>> is changed.
>>
>> Referecne: http://blockchaincon.io
>> PyCon India 2016 website :https://in.pycon.org/2016/
>>
>> The copyrights of this website design lies with PyCon India and PSSI
>> which is clearly mentioned in our website. Also we have paid for a
>> vendor to get this designed.
>>
>> Is it right for them to do so? How should we handle this now and also
>> stop this from happening going forward?
>>
>
I'd like to see welcoming approach and not to derail any volunteers effort
with three week left for the conference.


>
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>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vijay
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