On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 17:34, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Why would you want to remove licenses from it? Don't you want it to be possible for people to use it? When there is no permission to use it given in the license, the default is "you can't use it". -- Radomir Dopieralski, http://sheep.art.pl _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
