On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Michael Foord <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I'd unlicense all the content. If you need to share a licensed material - place it on your site and provide a link from the wiki. -- anatoly t.
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