[Chennaipy] Website Update

[Vijay Kumar]

> On 7 Oct 2014 11:36, "Abdul Muneer" <abdulmuneer at gmail.com
> <mailto:abdulmuneer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     The footer shows the copyright is held by an individual. Perhaps it
>     is appropriate to show the copyright is held by the Chennai Python
>     User Group.
>
>     Regards,
>     Abdul Muneer

Hi Abdul and Shreyas,
Thanks for the inputs. I didn't notice it too, it was added by the
Pure Pelican Theme, I guess.

BTW, AFAIK there are two ways that open source project handle
copyright.

   1. The copyright is assigned by all authors to the organization that
      maintains the project. Example is the GNU project. The copyright
      is assigned to the FSF. This involves paper work. See
      https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legal-Matters for
      more details.

   2. The copyright is owned by the author itself, they just agree to
      distribute their work under the project's license. Examples
      include most other open source projects including the Linux
      kernel and Wikipedia. Here is a quote from
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights

         The text of Wikipedia is copyrighted by Wikipedia editors and
         contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one
         or several liberal licenses.

      For more details visit the above link.

For Chennaipy's website, we will be using the second approach. We will
have a page with a list of contributors, individual contributions made
by each author can be obtained from git's history. At the bottom of
the page we will put up a text similar to Wikipedia's, without
attributing to a specific person or organization.

     Text is available under the Creative Commons
     Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Your comments and feedback are welcome.

Regards,
Vijay