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

[Radomir Dopieralski]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:22, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

>> > I'd unlicense all the content. If you need to share a licensed material
>> > -
>> > place it on your site and provide a link from the wiki.
>>
>> Why would you want to remove licenses from it? Don't you want it to be
>> possible for people to use it?
>
>
> Quite the opposite - I want information sharing on the Python Wiki be free
> of the bullshit of implied rights.
>
>>
>> When there is no permission to use it given in the license, the
>> default is "you can't use it".
>
>
> Right. The copyright law in most countries require permission _by default_
> for public stuff, that why the stuff needs to be explicitly unlicensed
> - http://unlicense.org/

Despite a cute name, that is, in fact, a license, and not a very good one.
Please see http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0 for explanation of the
problems with putting things in public domain.


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Radomir Dopieralski, http://sheep.art.pl