On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Radomir Dopieralski <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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? > Quite the opposite - I want information sharing on the Python Wiki be free of the bullshit of implied rights. > When there is no permission to use it given in the license, the > default is "you can't use it". Right. The copyright law in most countries require permission _by default_ for public stuff, that why the stuff needs to be explicitly unlicensed - http://unlicense.org/ -- anatoly t.
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