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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:37 PM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:57:45PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Steve Holden wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Should we add a notice to the edit page like Wikipedia's?  Wikipedia's
> reads:
>
>        By clicking the "Save Page" button, you agree to the Terms of
>        Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution
>        under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a
>        hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative
>        Commons license.

Awesome. I had a feeling that we aren't the first organization dealing
with this issue.

> We'd still have the problem of getting a license to the existing wiki
> content.  Perhaps we could take a vote of the contributors with logins
> ("Are you OK with using license X?").

Yeah, that's a project in itself. Half of those users probably left
behind an email address that no longer works. :-(

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