[pydotorg-www] License of website

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:54 AM,  <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>
> We could ask a lawyer for a recommendation, but my personal feeling
> is that copying the entire website is not ok. Many people have contributed
> to it, in particular to the wiki and the mailing list archives, and many
> might be assuming that their content will only appear on python.org.

Then they must sue gmane, nabble and other public sites. Common - this
information is public and if people maintain the copyright notice - it
doesn't matter where this information is located. Can you be more
specific about what can be "not ok" with copying web site for offline
use?

> Certain parts of it are meant for redistribution; those should typically
> also have an explicit license with them (I'm thinking about the
> documentation
> in particular).

There is no explicit license for documentation. It is covered by
Python license agreement.
http://docs.python.org/license.html

> If this position is agreeable, it would then be possible, but very tedious,
> to go through the website and indicate what pages can be redistributed
> and which one cannot.

The position is disputable.

> So unless somebody volunteers for this, the natural
> consequence would be "if there is no explicit permission given to make
> copies, one may not make copies".

I guess without site structure or sitemap, going through all the pages
doesn't guarantee that all content is covered. This in turn, raises
the question - if full sitemap can be generated with current
implementation of web-site backend?
--
anatoly t.