On Monday 30 December 2002 01:11 am, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> A requirement could be added to the PEP 2 that would require a >> copyright disclosure be included in the package/module so that the >> name "copyright" would retrieve the relevant copyright for that >> package/module. A copyright that did not require disclosure would >> return None.
Raymond> Though it makes the copyright accessible in a binary Raymond> distribution, I don't think it fulfills the license Raymond> requirements of being in printed in the documentation.
Ah, but now you have a "machine" that will generate the bit of documentation you desire as part of the install process (binary or source).
+1 A script to generate the section in the documentation would keep the binary distribution in sync with the paper docs.