[Inpycon] Copyright violation of PyCon India website by blockchain 2017 conference organizer

[Sreekanth S Rameshaiah]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 at 17:59 vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Kracekumar Ramaraj <me at kracekumar.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm personally for being liberal with this. We haven't put up a license
>>> on the github  repository for the assets or the website so my understanding
>>> is that by default, reuse is not permitted.
>>>
>>> I think the correct way to move forward is to put up a liberal license
>>> on the pssi repositories so that others can use the design and to tell the
>>> blockchain people that while their initial copy over was a violation of the
>>> copyright, we've changed the terms so that it's no longer a problem.
>>>
>>> That would solve it. Correct?
>>
>>
>> +1 for liberal license.
>>
>> It's good sign to see new communities looking upto Python community.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2017-11-29 13:25, vijay kumar wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed that blockchain 2017 conference team have copied PyCon
>>>> India 2016 code, logo and design without consulting and confirming
>>>> with PyCon India community or PSSI. Just the color, content and logo
>>>> is changed.
>>>>
>>>> Referecne: http://blockchaincon.io
>>>> PyCon India 2016 website :https://in.pycon.org/2016/
>>>>
>>>> The copyrights of this website design lies with PyCon India and PSSI
>>>> which is clearly mentioned in our website. Also we have paid for a
>>>> vendor to get this designed.
>>>>
>>>> Is it right for them to do so? How should we handle this now and also
>>>> stop this from happening going forward?
>>>>
>>>
>> I'd like to see welcoming approach and not to derail any volunteers
>> effort with three week left for the conference.
>>
>
> We welcome people using our assets but with proper communication in prior.
> Nobody is intending to derail any event or any volunteers effort.
>
> The concern is somebody using PyCon India's assets and claiming copyrights
> on their website. The content on the website is theirs but not the website
> design, sponsorship prospectus, etc..
>
> The website design, code, sponsorship prospectus are all assets of
> PSSI/PyCon India and nobody can claim ownership of that. I would have
> appreciated if they have handled this ethically.
>
> As suggested by everyone, lets add license with the clause of usage for
> our assets to avoid this in future.
>

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Suggest CC-by-SA license.
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