[Python-Dev] Backported faster RLock to Python 2.6.

[Michael Foord]

On 07/01/2010 13:11, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 13:23, Nick Coghlan<ncoghlan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> As Simon pointed out, while some organisations do work that way, the PSF
>> isn't one of them.
>>
>> The PSF only requires that the code be contributed under a license that
>> then allows us to turn around and redistribute it under a different open
>> source license without requesting additional permission from the
>> copyright holder.
>>      
> Even if the contributed code as in this case is a method in an
> existing file? How does that work, how do they keep ownership of one
> method in the threading.py method? :-)
>
>    

When contributing code to Python all work remains copyright the original 
author. The combined work is copyright *everyone*. The PSF has a license 
to distribute it, which is all that is important.

How you meaningfully exercise your ownership over chunks of code is left 
for the reader to determine...

(i.e. copyright and ownership are legal terms that don't necessarily 
mean anything *practical* in these situations.)

Michael


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