> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of M.-A. Lemburg > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:24 AM > To: VanL > Cc: Ben Finney; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Catalog-sig] [PSF-Board] Troubled by changes to PyPI > usage agreement > > VanL wrote: > > Doug Hellmann wrote: > >> We have to grant the PSF the rights to distribute the files if we're > >> uploading them to be hosted on PyPI. Does the new wording imply > that > >> we're licensing the use of that code under those terms, or just > >> granting distribution rights the file containing the code? It feels > >> like the latter, but I don't know how the word "perform" is > >> interpreted in this context. > > Doug is essentially right here. By this agreement, the PSF gets the > > particular rights to: > > - reproduce: We can copy it (in memory, or in preparation to send a > copy) > > - distribute: We can cause other people to receive it. > > - transmit: We can send it out on a signal. > > - display: We can show the content to other people. > > - perform: A term of art for showing some sorts of works (think > > audio-visual or theater works) > > - publish: We can offer and provide copies to other people. > > ... including in digital form: And do all that stuff using computer > > representations of whatever you upload. > > > > You will find that all of these are very closely related, if not > > synonyms. Basically, we can receive your work, copy it, and provide > it > > to other people in a variety of ways. This does not give the PSF the > > right to relicense your work, nor to create derivative works -- just > to > > pass it on to anybody who happens to wander by the PyPI web page. > > Right, but why does the clause also give this permission > to "all other users of the web site" and why does the license > need to be "irrevocable" ?
PyPI has user-run mirrors, some internal and some public. --Noah _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
