[Python-legal-sig] Round 2: Is CLA required to send and accept edits for Python documentation?

[Richard Fontana]

On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:17:32 +1100
Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> writes:
> 
> > Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > > It may be that there's no better rationale for the PSF's CLA
> > > requirement than “to allow a change of license”.
> > > 
> > > However, that rationale implies either that Wikimedia foundation
> > > could not legally change the license terms for Wikipedia
> >
> > Well, could it? Has this been seriously studied on legal grounds, or
> > did everybody just let the Wikimedia foundation get away with it?
> 
> I don't know. But the fact that they *have* done it means either that
> Wikimedia foundation are special somehow, or PSF are special somehow,
> or something else explains the difference.

If I'm not misremembering the Wikipedia license change was achieved
through FSF update of the GFDL. So probably not too relevant.

- RF