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

Bibhas Ch Debnath me at bibhas.in
Wed Nov 29 05:23:34 EST 2017


I think someone replied on Twitter -
https://twitter.com/rajataaron/status/935810338611609600

> Majority of the team for @BlockchainConIo were the one who organize
@pyconindia 2016 and 2017. Yes, we copied our own code.

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
wrote:

> On 2017-11-29 15:43, Anand B Pillai wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 29 November 2017 03:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think we stand to gain anything from trying to enforcing this
>>> except a lot of public bad will. What's the problem with letting someone
>>> else use the design? We are a "community" thing aren't we?
>>>
>>
>> +1 for a Creative Commons ShareAlike License for PyCon India Assets[1].
>>
>
> Yeah. I was undecided on whether we should add a share alike clause but
> given the nature of things, I suppose that's what makes the most sense.
>
> Also, considering that a lot of people have put in some amount of
> volunteer and paid work into doing this, we should probably add an
> attributions clause to the license. That way, anyone who uses the design
> would have to acknowledge that it was from us and the people who did the
> original work would get credit for their effort.
>
> Like Krace said, it's nice that people are copying it from us. After all,
> the sincerest form of flattery is imitation. :)
>
>
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Bibhas Debnath
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