"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> The second version does seem much more user-friendly, somehow, and >> should calm fears about potential abuse of content by the Foundation. >> >> Are we going to go with that? > > Not without legal advise. I would hope that users will also get > permission to make copies of the content uploaded to PyPI, without > having to study the license conditions of each and every packet > that they may want to copy (and they may actually have to make a copy > first to find out what the licensing conditions are). > > So ISTM that MAL's version is *less* user-friendly (at least, to the > users of PyPI who actually want to use the packages that get uploaded).
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