On 28.02.2013 18:44, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2013, at 2:22 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> BTW: I've never seen a hosting website require agreeing to >> giving users of the website the same distribution rights >> as the owner of the website. >> > > You should read terms of service more closely then, this is standard because > of how lawyers interpret the general foundation of the internet. Because we > cannot promise private caches and such will _ever_ delete something just > because it is removed from PyPI we need that bit of legal protection. None of > us are lawyers to the best of my knowledge so this is not the right place to > discuss such things. If our counsel says that requirement isn't needed, we > will remove it, otherwise we won't.
Then please point me to a hosting license that requires this :-) I've looked around quite a bit and couldn't find any... That said, you're right in that this list is not the right place for such a discussion. I just wanted to explain what I meant with "giving up control". -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 28 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
