IANAL, but if we could put a clause in the docs that all recipes are in the public domain, that would be great.
-CHB On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:42 AM Todd <toddr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Per Guido's suggestion, I am starting a new thread on this. > > The itertools module documentation has a bunch of recipes that give > various ways to combine the existing functions for useful tasks. [1] > > The issue is that these recipes are part of the documentation, and > although IANAL, as far as I can tell this means they fall under the > Python-2.0 license. [2] Normally using the Python-2.0 license is not a big > deal because it is non-copyleft. You have to include the license text and > explain what changes you made, which isn't a problem for any sizable use of > Python code. > > The problem occurs for such small code snippets. Again IANAL, but it > seems you have to add the license text to the project, identify which parts > of the code fall under that license, and document any changes you made to > it. This is a lot of work to use, in many cases, just one or two lines of > code. > > I personally use one of the projects, like more-itertools, that implement > these recipes together under the Python-2.0 license and thus segregate the > license issues from the rest of my code base, but at least in my opinion > this mostly defeats the purpose of making code snippets like available. > > As I am not a lawyer, so I don't know the best approach to deal with this > issue (if it is even desirable to deal with it). And I know that there are > other modules with recipes and other sorts of documentation with useful > code, although the itertools ones are the ones I see mentioned the most. > > [1] https://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html#itertools-recipes > [2] > https://docs.python.org/license.html#psf-license-agreement-for-python-release > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/OZDSGC3I72J4GU375L7FLBLLTYXNLE34/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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