[pydotorg-www] Questions about the code located on your Wiki

[Aahz]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, Michael Foord wrote:
> 
> The wiki is freely editable by anyone, and as such any piece of code
> may have originally been entered by anyone - or even have multiple
> authors. I've looked around, but as far as I know we don't have any
> automatic licensing for code posted to the wiki.
>
> That means (unfortunately) that the code posted to the wiki is
> probably copyright whomever put it there. Small bits of code would
> probably not be copyrightable at all, but for larger sections of code
> the licensing position is unclear.
>
> I'm afraid I can't help you with your specific question, but I'm
> sending this to the web team so we can consider an automatic license
> requirement for future code posted to the wiki.

Actually, I think that it's reasonable, given the context, for us to just
slap a note that all wiki content is copyrighted by the PSF -- after all,
that's what we do for the rest of the website content, and the wiki is
really just part of the website.  We probably should add that the
contents are licensed under Creative Commons and that probably needs a
board decision about exactly which license we're using.
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