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

[Michael Foord]

On 11/01/2012 15:45, Aahz wrote:
> 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.
I would definitely be in favour of automatic licensing of all content 
posted to the wiki, but I agree that it's not something the web team can 
do unilateraly.

All the best,

Michael Foord

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