Thank you all who have commented on the licensing issues surrounding The Python Papers.
For the time being, the board and I have decided to continue using the Creative Commons Noncommercial, Attribution and Share-Alike license as the standard license for articles contained in The Python Papers. However, a number of reasonable concerns have been raised by individuals on this forum, the most important I consider to be: * Incompatibility with the Python license, preventing content in The Python Papers from being fed back and redistributed, e.g., with the Python documentation * Possible confusion arising from the slogan "free as in freedom" On that basis, I would like to make two announcements: 1) Authors submitting to The Python Papers will be permitted to choose from a number of licenses for redistributing their work. (note -- their copyright agreement with The Python Papers is *separate* from the copyright agreement they choose to attach for general use). This will allow authors to choose greater freedoms to the re-use of their works if they wish. 2) The Python Papers will no longer use the slogin "free as in freedom" but will adopt the Creative Commons slogan "some rights reserved" in future communications, to the extent possible under human fallibility :) Those who have made comments here might wish to submit them for publication if they would like them to be heard by The Python Papers general readership. This may be done by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] We may not publish all submitted comments, and reserve the right to publish them under the license adopted by The Python Papers generally. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
