[pydotorg-www] [PSF-Board] License of website

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Steve Holden wrote:
> I think that would be about the worst possible approach. WEll, no, I could think of worse, but we can't tell people to ignore potential copyright issues on content we publish in our wiki. We simply don't have that right.

Agreed, this would indeed be a very poor statement to make
given that the PSF has a mission to protect the IP in Python.

At the moment the only thing we can tell people requesting the
PSF's opinion on the wiki content is that we don't own the
copyright and thus cannot make a statement.

Without a licensing scheme in place, the resp. authors retain the
copyright and full rights to it. The fact that they place the
content on a public website is indication that they are fine
with making the content available to the general public, but
it doesn't imply that we can freely allow others to take it
and do whatever they want with it.

The same goes for mailing list archives or any other user
provided content that the PSF hosts, but for which we don't
have a license relationship with the authors in place.

That said, I don't we have a problem, we're just talking us into
having one...

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> On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
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>> Could someone say "the PSF does not have an opinion, use your good judgment and hope for the best."   That seems as true as "The PSF says don't do it, but they probably wont call the police if you ignore them."
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