[pydotorg-www] Questions about the code located on your Wiki

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Michael Foord <mfoord at python.org> wrote:

> On 11/01/2012 15:45, Aahz wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, Michael Foord wrote:
>>
>>> The wiki is freely editable by anyone, and as such any piece of code
>>> may have originally been entered by anyone - or even have multiple
>>> authors. I've looked around, but as far as I know we don't have any
>>> automatic licensing for code posted to the wiki.
>>>
>>> That means (unfortunately) that the code posted to the wiki is
>>> probably copyright whomever put it there. Small bits of code would
>>> probably not be copyrightable at all, but for larger sections of code
>>> the licensing position is unclear.
>>>
>>> I'm afraid I can't help you with your specific question, but I'm
>>> sending this to the web team so we can consider an automatic license
>>> requirement for future code posted to the wiki.
>>>
>> Actually, I think that it's reasonable, given the context, for us to just
>> slap a note that all wiki content is copyrighted by the PSF -- after all,
>> that's what we do for the rest of the website content, and the wiki is
>> really just part of the website.  We probably should add that the
>> contents are licensed under Creative Commons and that probably needs a
>> board decision about exactly which license we're using.
>>
> I would definitely be in favour of automatic licensing of all content
> posted to the wiki, but I agree that it's not something the web team can do
> unilateraly.


I'd unlicense all the content. If you need to share a licensed material -
place it on your site and provide a link from the wiki.
-- 
anatoly t.
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