[pydotorg-www] License of website

[martin at v.loewis.de]

Zitat von Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk>:

> Hey all,
>
> What is the license of the python.org website content? The website  
> has a copyright message but no license. We have a request on the  
> webmaster alias for permission to distribute the website "to people  
> lacking Internet access via the eGranary Digital Library".
>
> That sounds fine, but the license terms of the website, for purposes  
> of redistribution, are not clear.

We could ask a lawyer for a recommendation, but my personal feeling
is that copying the entire website is not ok. Many people have contributed
to it, in particular to the wiki and the mailing list archives, and many
might be assuming that their content will only appear on python.org.

Certain parts of it are meant for redistribution; those should typically
also have an explicit license with them (I'm thinking about the documentation
in particular).

If this position is agreeable, it would then be possible, but very tedious,
to go through the website and indicate what pages can be redistributed
and which one cannot. So unless somebody volunteers for this, the natural
consequence would be "if there is no explicit permission given to make
copies, one may not make copies".

Regards,
Martin