[Python-ideas] Contributions to official documentation versus contributions to wiki

[random832 at fastmail.us]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013, at 23:22, Terry Reedy wrote:
> 2. A grant of rights in the contribution to PSF only grants those rights 
> to the PSF. WOW. It cannot be otherwise. But since the grant is 
> explicitly not exclusive, the copyright holder is free to grant the same 
> rights in the contributed word to everyone else in the world.

Do you see how granting everyone the right to change to any open source
license approved by a unanimous vote of the PSF board really isn't in
the spirit of considering everyone equal? Or are you proposing people
should grant everyone the right to change to any open source license
they choose? What's the point of having licenses at all, then?

> 3. The PSF is the copyright holder of the *collective* work and to that 
> extent, it must, as a practical matter. have 'special rights', just as 
> you have special rights to the words you write.

Er, no. To the extent that it "must" be special it is because it holds
the resources used for distribution. Giving the PSF rights that would
not be given to, say, someone else seeking to make a fork of python is
not necessary in the way you are suggesting it is.