
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Antoine Pitrou<solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
Are you a lawyer? Do you know the legal history of Python distributions and the US export laws? It's not so easy -- for one, the PSF (a US foundation) owns the copyright.
Does it? As far as I understand, the contributor agreement is not a copyright transfer agreement (« PSF understands and agrees that Contributor retains copyright in its Contributions »).
The rights in the individual contributions are retained by the contributor. However the rights in the distributions as a whole are most definitely claimed by the PSF. Read the LICENSE file in the distro. :-)
Not that it makes the issue easier of course :)
Nothing that involves lawyers is ever easy. That's why well-meaning suggestions like "but python.org is outside the US" are so aggravating -- it's so hard to explain why it doesn't work that way. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)