Qeury about copyright

[Tim Peters]

[Dave Harrison]
> To those who know the GPL inside out and Guido as well,

I expect only Guido's doctor knows Guido inside out, but luckily this
question should be answerable by reference to his exterior alone.  Luckily
too, the GPL is irrelevant, as Python isn't released under the GPL.

> I am a student and when I am coding at University I have a limit
> placed on the amount that I can download during a single session
> from sites external to the uni.  Now because I like to code in
> python and I want to encourage its use in the comp sci dept as
> well I have been thinking about putting up a webiste based at the
> uni with the python doco and maybe a few essays by various people
> such as Guido and other people who use and have commented on python.
>
> We currently have a Python message board, but to to make is easy
> for students to code in python at uni they need to have it
> available to them without eating up their download quota.
>
> What restrictions are there placed on the availability of the
> doco and varied essays ? Can I put the doco online for people to
> use ?  Anything else I might want to know ?

The docs are released under the Python License, which places no material
restrictions on redistribution.  Read the license for details; the short
course is you're not going to get in any trouble for making a copy of the
Python docs available locally.

Essays are a different issue, and the answer may vary according to each one.
If the requirements for a particular essay aren't clear, you should ask its
author(s) directly.

If the essays you're talking about are available from python.org, it may be
less work in the end to convince your university to maintain a mirror site.
There are several already, listed at

    http://www.python.org/Mirrors.html

and instructions for setting up a mirror are at

    http://www.python.org/MirrorInstructions.html