Perhaps a comment to that effect at StackOverflow Documentation would be helpful.
I support the SO effort. I think it provides an opportunity to introduce examples and tips that aren't in the tutorials or user's guide. However, my own position is I would like to contribute to the official sklearn site - if I could get clearance on the legal side. Sigh. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Dale Smith | Macy's Systems and Technology | IFS eCommerce | Data Science and Capacity Planning | 5985 State Bridge Road, Johns Creek, GA 30097 | dale.t.sm...@macys.com -----Original Message----- From: scikit-learn [mailto:scikit-learn-bounces+dale.t.smith=macys....@python.org] On Behalf Of Gael Varoquaux Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 2:29 AM To: Scikit-learn user and developer mailing list Subject: Re: [scikit-learn] StackOverflow Documentation ⚠ EXT MSG: > In this scikit-learn case, it seems more like that these users are merely > “farming” for SO points and rep by reposting scikit-learn documentation. In > my opinion, the polite way to go about it is to just comment as a > scikit-learn dev saying that these reposts are okay under the BSD license but > that a contribution to the original source needs to be added since it > violates the copyright otherwise — like you mentioned — and adding a nice > message encouraging these users to make suggestions and improvements to the > original docs. (and if nothing changes after xx days, I would report it to > SO). +1 _______________________________________________ scikit-learn mailing list scikit-learn@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn * This is an EXTERNAL EMAIL. Stop and think before clicking a link or opening attachments. _______________________________________________ scikit-learn mailing list scikit-learn@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn
