On Sun, Aug 11, 2013, at 23:22, Terry Reedy wrote:
2. A grant of rights in the contribution to PSF only grants those rights to the PSF. WOW. It cannot be otherwise. But since the grant is explicitly not exclusive, the copyright holder is free to grant the same rights in the contributed word to everyone else in the world.
Do you see how granting everyone the right to change to any open source license approved by a unanimous vote of the PSF board really isn't in the spirit of considering everyone equal? Or are you proposing people should grant everyone the right to change to any open source license they choose? What's the point of having licenses at all, then?
3. The PSF is the copyright holder of the *collective* work and to that extent, it must, as a practical matter. have 'special rights', just as you have special rights to the words you write.
Er, no. To the extent that it "must" be special it is because it holds the resources used for distribution. Giving the PSF rights that would not be given to, say, someone else seeking to make a fork of python is not necessary in the way you are suggesting it is.