[Python-legal-sig] Copyright page in the documentation

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Nov 23 01:23:58 CET 2013


On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:32:07 -0500
Janzert <janzert at janzert.com> wrote:
> 
>  From the LICENSE file, PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2, 
> Paragraph 2 in part reads:
> > provided, however, that PSF's License Agreement and PSF's notice of copyright,
> > i.e., "Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
> > 2011, 2012, 2013 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved" are retained
> 
> Paragraph 1 also states that the license applies to both python source 
> and documentation.

Hmm, that's interesting.  Is it a partial claim for copyright, i.e.
does the PSF have copyright on some of the code (which sounds likely
-- I suppose it may have inherited copyright from the previous
corporate copyright holders)?

Regards

Antoine.




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