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

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Radomir Dopieralski <sheep at sheep.art.pl>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 17:34, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why would you want to remove licenses from it? Don't you want it to be
> possible for people to use it?
>

Quite the opposite - I want information sharing on the Python Wiki be free
of the bullshit of implied rights.


> When there is no permission to use it given in the license, the
> default is "you can't use it".


Right. The copyright law in most countries require permission _by default_
for public stuff, that why the stuff needs to be explicitly unlicensed -
http://unlicense.org/
-- 
anatoly t.
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