On 11/01/2012 15:45, Aahz wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, Michael Foord wrote:
The wiki is freely editable by anyone, and as such any piece of code
may have originally been entered by anyone - or even have multiple
authors. I've looked around, but as far as I know we don't have any
automatic licensing for code posted to the wiki.
That means (unfortunately) that the code posted to the wiki is
probably copyright whomever put it there. Small bits of code would
probably not be copyrightable at all, but for larger sections of code
the licensing position is unclear.
I'm afraid I can't help you with your specific question, but I'm
sending this to the web team so we can consider an automatic license
requirement for future code posted to the wiki.
Actually, I think that it's reasonable, given the context, for us to just
slap a note that all wiki content is copyrighted by the PSF -- after all,
that's what we do for the rest of the website content, and the wiki is
really just part of the website. We probably should add that the
contents are licensed under Creative Commons and that probably needs a
board decision about exactly which license we're using.
I would definitely be in favour of automatic licensing of all content
posted to the wiki, but I agree that it's not something the web team can
do unilateraly.
All the best,
Michael Foord
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