> new on here and not a tech guy, wanted to know if a company or > programmer who uses Django can claim they own the code?
Just out of curiosity, what are your reasons for wanting to OWN the code? Do you want to change it? Do you want to distribute it on your own terms? Do you want to assert that you control your local rate of change, rather than be dictated by licensing terms? <IANAL> You can claim ownership if 1) you authored the entire thing 2) or you purchased all rights to the thing 3) or the thing was in the public domain Clearly none of these three are the case for Django (you didn't write it, you didn't puchase all rights, and it's not in the PD). However, none of those are true regarding just about any other framework you'd find either. Do you OWN the .NET libraries? Do you OWN Python? Do you OWN Rails? no, no, and no. So unless you write your own operating system, your own programming language and libraries, your own web framework, and then code in that, you don't OWN it. See the absurdity & futility of anybody wanting to OWN the entire thing? Plenty of folks are doing great development USING the framework they don't OWN. > Also if I have my developer build my website using Django, do > I own it or simply license the code? Both Python & Django are licensed under *very* liberal terms. Just read the LICENSE file included in the distribution and compare it to the licensing terms on any other framework you're considering. You may find a few others under the BSD license, but I've never found any framework worth considering in the public-domain. You don't own them, but you have far more rights with far fewer responsibilities than just about anything on the market. > Please advise, thank you For goodness sake, I abhor the phrase "please advise". People who use it should be smacked in the head as a penalty. -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
