Checkin privileges for a few other people please? (fwd)

Cliff Wells LogiplexSoftware at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 28 22:25:17 CET 2003


On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 19:15, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Guido says it's a go if you're cool with the PSF license.  This will likely
> affect your current code.  Let me know, yea or nay.
> 
> Skip
> 

DSV is already listed under the Python license on SF, and even if it
weren't, I'd have no problem with this.
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> From: Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> To: skip at pobox.com
> Cc: Barry Warsaw <barry at wooz.org>, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org>, Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at zope.com>, Tim Peters <tim at zope.com>
> Subject: Re: Checkin privileges for a few other people please?
> Date: 27 Jan 2003 21:24:55 -0500
> 
> > I'm writing to see if you can give four people Python checkin privileges:
> > 
> >     who                         SF username
> >     ---                         -----------
> >     Kevin Altis                 kasplat
> >     Dave Cole                   davecole
> >     Andrew McNamara             andrewmcnamara
> >     Cliff Wells                 cliffwells18
> > 
> > We are launching on a PEP and a module to support reading and writing CSV
> > files.  Dave Cole, Andrew McNamara and Cliff Wells are authors of currently
> > available CSV packages (csv and Python-DSV - see Parnassus for pointers).
> > Kevin Altis is the author of PythonCard, and a user of CSV formats.  (I also
> > use CSV files a lot.)  All four have contributed substantially to the Python
> > community.
> > 
> > We're currently working on a PEP to define the API.  The current plan is to
> > build heavily on the Object Craft (Dave and Andrew) and Cliff's modules with
> > a more Pythonic API than either currently has.  I created a directory in the
> > sandbox just now to support this little mini-project.  The goal is to have
> > something which can be included in Python 2.3, though this may be a bit
> > optimistic, even with a substantial body of code already written.
> 
> I'd like to make sure that they will assign the copyright to the PSF.
> This is especially important since two of these are already authors of
> 3rd party code with possibly different licenses.  All new code in the
> Python CVS *must* be under the standard PSF license.
> 
> If they all agree with the drafts at
> 
> http://www.python.org/psf/psf-contributor-agreement.html
> 
> it's a deal, as far as I'm concerned.  (Oh, and the usual caution for
> checking in outside the area for which they are responsible.)
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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