Re: [Catalog-sig] [PSF-Board] Troubled by changes to PyPI usage agreement

2009-12-07 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Noah Kantrowitz wrote: VanL wrote: Doug Hellmann wrote: We have to grant the PSF the rights to distribute the files if we're uploading them to be hosted on PyPI. Does the new wording imply that we're licensing the use of that code under those terms, or just granting distribution rights the

Re: [Catalog-sig] [PSF-Board] Troubled by changes to PyPI usage agreement

2009-12-07 Thread VanL
Laura Creighton wrote: I think it would be better to use the language from the EUPL see: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Doc?id=31979 In particular, I think that it is much better to say something like: In the countries where moral rights apply, the Licensor waives his right to exercise

Re: [Catalog-sig] [PSF-Board] Troubled by changes to PyPI usage agreement

2009-12-07 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
VanL wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Those are likely only a handful of users who'd need the added permissions and it doesn't explain the need for an irrevocable license. The irrevocability is there to protect the PSF. It is so that no one can claim later that they got mad at the PSF and

Re: [Catalog-sig] [PSF-Board] Troubled by changes to PyPI usage agreement

2009-12-07 Thread Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF
Adding a Google-like clause might make us seem less Draconian. regards Steve M.-A. Lemburg wrote: VanL wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Those are likely only a handful of users who'd need the added permissions and it doesn't explain the need for an irrevocable license. The irrevocability