Ben Finney wrote:
Howdy all,
+ <li>The PSF is free to use or disseminate any content that I upload on an + unrestricted basis for any purpose.
I presume this is the first thing that bothers Ben. The PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2, which I just checked is *NOT* an unrestricted license. It has a few mild conditions. So it could seem a little strange that it would not allow at least the same restrictions on stuff uploaded.
> In particular, the PSF and all other
+ users of the web site are granted an irrevocable,
The PSF license has a termination clause.
The content that I submit to PyPI is licensed under specific license terms. That certainly does *not* allow the PSF to “use or disseminate any content that I upload on an unrestricted basis for any purpose”, etc.; it allows only those acts permitted by the license terms granted in the work. I have already registered an account at PyPI, and never agreed to this wording. (The previous wording was much less broad and unobjectionable.) I would not have noticed it changing if I had not been investigating the PyPI website source code. Will the PSF claim I am bound by it anyway?
Unless the previous agreement included a unilateral 'change at will' clause (which I do not think US courts allow), you are not. You have to at least be given notice and a chance to opt out of the change and cancel the agreement.
You will have to ask the PSF what it 'claims' and intends. tjr _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
