On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Antoine Pitrou<solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes: >> >> Are you a lawyer? Do you know the legal history of Python >> distributions and the US export laws? It's not so easy -- for one, the >> PSF (a US foundation) owns the copyright. > > Does it? As far as I understand, the contributor agreement is not a copyright > transfer agreement (« PSF understands and agrees that Contributor retains > copyright in its Contributions »).
The rights in the individual contributions are retained by the contributor. However the rights in the distributions as a whole are most definitely claimed by the PSF. Read the LICENSE file in the distro. :-) > Not that it makes the issue easier of course :) Nothing that involves lawyers is ever easy. That's why well-meaning suggestions like "but python.org is outside the US" are so aggravating -- it's so hard to explain why it doesn't work that way. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
