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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:36 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> 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.

Agreed. But getting a lawyer to explain the situation to us is still a
"project". (And one that I am not personally going to take on. I hit
my lawyer quota in 2001.)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)