Hello dear pythonic list members,

although mirroring of the python website is not "needed" anymore,
no one ever told the various contributors, that this is now a guaranteed "feature".

So I think, if someone offers "the internet in a box" for institutions in countries, where access to the internet is close to impossible, then I do not see any differenence to mirroring (just a systemeatically outdated mirror).

All the best,
Stefan.
Am 20.04.12 13:21, schrieb Michael Foord:

On 19 Apr 2012, at 23:54, mar...@v.loewis.de wrote:


Zitat von Michael Foord<mich...@voidspace.org.uk>:

Hey all,

What is the license of the python.org website content? The website has a copyright 
message but no license. We have a request on the webmaster alias for permission to 
distribute the website "to people lacking Internet access via the eGranary Digital 
Library".

That sounds fine, but the license terms of the website, for purposes of 
redistribution, are not clear.

We could ask a lawyer for a recommendation, but my personal feeling
is that copying the entire website is not ok. Many people have contributed
to it, in particular to the wiki and the mailing list archives, and many
might be assuming that their content will only appear on python.org.

Certain parts of it are meant for redistribution; those should typically
also have an explicit license with them (I'm thinking about the documentation
in particular).

If this position is agreeable, it would then be possible, but very tedious,
to go through the website and indicate what pages can be redistributed
and which one cannot. So unless somebody volunteers for this, the natural
consequence would be "if there is no explicit permission given to make
copies, one may not make copies".

I think unfortunately you are correct. The non-profit in question looks like 
they are providing a potentially valuable service - so it would be *nice* to be 
able to license at least the core parts of the website for redistribution, but 
it seems like it may be an onerous task.

The core parts of the website that are in our SVN repository, and built by our 
build scripts, we probably have full licensing control over. So it may be 
possible to explicitly license those parts for redistribution. The PSF would 
have to make a decision on this though.

All the best,

Michael



Regards,
Martin


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