[Python-ideas] CC0 for Python Documentation

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:10:14 +0100
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
> > CC0 is a way to free public works from legal burden:
> > https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
> > 
> > Here is the reasoning why people do this:
> > https://creativecommons.org/tag/cc0
> > 
> > At first I thought about CC-BY, but then realized that no
> > authorship is respected. As you may see here -
> > http://docs.python.org/3/copyright.html - PSF is the sole
> > owner of the docs with no reference to the work of people
> > who have contributed. No wonder that there is not much
> > motivation to collaborate.
> 
> The documentation is distributed under the same license
> terms as Python itself. Credits are included in the
> Misc/ACKS file and the patch history is both on the
> tracker and the Mercurial log.

Anatoly has a point, though: why does the doc claim Python is
"copyright PSF" while that is not true - and the LICENSE file doesn't
make any such claim?

(uh, I would prefer the followup to have been on the legal SIG -
python-ideas is pretty much off-topic for this :-()

Regards

Antoine.