[Python-ideas] CC0 for Python Documentation

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 22.11.2013 06:22, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> Adding python-legal-sig at python.org to CC. Please,
> follow up on python-ideas.

Please don't cross post.

> CC0 is a way to free public works from legal burden:
> https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
> 
> Here is the reasoning why people do this:
> https://creativecommons.org/tag/cc0
> 
> At first I thought about CC-BY, but then realized that no
> authorship is respected. As you may see here -
> http://docs.python.org/3/copyright.html - PSF is the sole
> owner of the docs with no reference to the work of people
> who have contributed. No wonder that there is not much
> motivation to collaborate.

The documentation is distributed under the same license
terms as Python itself. Credits are included in the
Misc/ACKS file and the patch history is both on the
tracker and the Mercurial log.

We don't treat documentation as separate from the code itself.
Both go together hand in hand.

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