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See Marc-Andre's comments about making the license more prominent on
the website.<br>
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<td>Python license</td>
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<td>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:42:51 +0200</td>
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<td>M.-A. Lemburg <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mal@egenix.com"><mal@egenix.com></a></td>
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<td>eGenix.com Software GmbH; <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.egenix.com/">http://www.egenix.com/</a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:webmaster@python.org">webmaster@python.org</a></td>
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<pre>Dear webmasters,
while discussing an issue related to the Python download page and crypto
code:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bugs.python.org/issue9119">http://bugs.python.org/issue9119</a>
I found that the Python license is not well presented on the python.org
website. Here's the snippet from the ticket discussion:
"""
I have a little trouble actually finding the license text on
the python.org web-site. It is not mentioned on the download page,
there's no mention of it in the downloads nav bar, nor in the documentation
section of the site.
Only the "about" section includes a mention of the
license and the "foundation" section even mentions it in the nav bar
(but that's not where people would look to find it). What's worse:
all links point to:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.python.org/psf/license/">http://www.python.org/psf/license/</a>
and that page refers to the Python 2.6.2 license...
"""
I'd suggest that the "download", "documentation" and "about" section
include a "license" link to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.python.org/psf/license/">http://www.python.org/psf/license/</a> - or
just make it a top-level nav bar entry.
This page would then need to be updated to point to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://docs.python.org/license.html">http://docs.python.org/license.html</a> instead of the 2.6.2 license.
The download pages themselves should also include a link to this
license page (possibly versioned, e.g.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.2/license.html">http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.2/license.html</a>), but I'm not
sure whether this is part of the site or the release process
setup.
Thanks,
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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