[Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

[Steve Holden]

Martin Geisler wrote:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
> 
>> Benjamin Peterson writes:
>>  > 2010/7/7 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
>>  > > Antoine Pitrou writes:
>>  > >
>>  > >  > >   http://selenic.com/hg/file/tip/mercurial/minirst.py
>>  > >  >
>>  > >  > Given that Mercurial is GPL, this is probably of no use to us,
>>  > >  > unfortunately.
> 
> I must admit that reading this felt strange somehow... that a piece of
> open source code should be useless. But I understand what you mean :)
> 
>>  > > Given that Martin apparently is the only or main author, I don't
>>  > > see a problem as long as he's willing.
>>  > 
>>  > And he hasn't assigned the copyright away.
>>
>> (Or that the assignment has an automatic author-use-ok clause like the
>> standard FSF assignment does, etc.)
> 
> We don't assign copyright in Mercurial, so this should be no problem.
> This also meant that we had to contact about 300 guys when changing from
> GPLv2 to GPLv2+.
> 
>> Just ask Martin, there are too many possibilities here to worry about.
>> If maybe we want it, and he is willing to contribute the parts he
>> wrote to Python under Python's license, then we can worry about
>> whether we really want it and about how much any required hoop-jumping
>> will cost.
> 
> I would be happy to relicense it under the Python license.
> 

I believe the ideal outcome, if it is possible, is for you to sign a
contributor agreement. This will license your material to the PSF in
such a way that we can release it under whatever license we deem necessary.

regards
 Steve
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