On 07/01/2010 13:11, Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 13:23, Nick Coghlan<ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
As Simon pointed out, while some organisations do work that way, the PSF
isn't one of them.
The PSF only requires that the code be contributed under a license that
then allows us to turn around and redistribute it under a different open
source license without requesting additional permission from the
copyright holder.
Even if the contributed code as in this case is a method in an
existing file? How does that work, how do they keep ownership of one
method in the threading.py method? :-)
When contributing code to Python all work remains copyright the original
author. The combined work is copyright *everyone*. The PSF has a license
to distribute it, which is all that is important.
How you meaningfully exercise your ownership over chunks of code is left
for the reader to determine...
(i.e. copyright and ownership are legal terms that don't necessarily
mean anything *practical* in these situations.)
Michael
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