[pydotorg-www] [PSF-Board] Nonprofit Academic Permission Request ::wpmc::10-17250

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'd like to propose an action item to look into making the Wiki
> contents copyrighted by the PSF or implicitly licensed to the PSF as
> well, so in the future we can give a full license to the entire site.
> The request today shows the value of such a license. I also wonder if
> there isn't a way we can consider the wiki contents *as a whole* as a
> collection, which appears to be separately copyrightable (IIRC
> there've been suits about collections of materials where the
> comprising pieces were not copyrightable -- but IANAL and I don't know
> if this is possible).

I think this really is lawyer's land.

In the future, we may hint potential copiers that it may be easier to
ask for forgiveness than for permission. I doubt any contributor would
go after somebody making a mirror or an offline copy. But as for giving
permission: here I really hesitate without a lawyer telling me that I
can give such permission.

Regards,
Martin