[python-advocacy] Advocacy Materials License and Web Frameworks Whitepaper

[Jeff Rush]

"Jeff, shouldn't we seek fairly solid redistribution guarantees in the 
licences recommended? CC licences are quite incompatible with various 
operating system distributions, yet things like Dive Into Python have been 
successfully bundled with distributions before now. Isn't that a desirable 
thing?" --

Paul, it definitely is a desirable thing and while I follow software licenses, 
apparently I'm not current on the various licensing issues for documentation.

Researching a bit, I see some good explanation of the various documentation 
licenses at:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#TOC2FreeDocumentationLicenses

I've changed the text on wiki.python.org to link to this page, and also 
recommend the GNU Free Documentation License.  If anyone has strong opinions 
on such licenses, please speak up.

BTW Paul, I found your notes collection on 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/MarketingPython which has some very good reading. 
  I've linked to it from the Advocacy page and will be applying some of the 
ideas and perhaps reusing some of the material.

And I see at http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming a good grasp of how to 
organize the huge topic of Python and web programming.  Some may notice that I 
didn't list any whitepapers on web frameworks -- that is because I wasn't sure 
how to possibly organize such a huge topic.  But it is one that needs 
attention - that when newcomers to the Python community ask what is the best 
web framework, we need not one answer but rather something that surveys the 
alternatives, relates them to requirements and provides a set of links for 
follow-up.  I see at http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/web_frameworks.html that 
you're making an attempt to address this need.  Is that work under an open 
license and as it develops could we get it into easily distributable 
whitepaper as well as a webpage?

-Jeff