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Dec 3, 2009, 7:49 PM
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Troubled by changes to PyPI usage agreement
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Howdy all,
In the Subversion repository for PyPI, this revision appeared:
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$ bzr info .
Repository checkout (format: 2a)
Location:
repository checkout root: .
checkout of branch: https://svn.python.org/packages/trunk/pypi
shared repository: /home/bignose/Projects/python/pypi
$ bzr log --revision 655
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revno: 655
svn revno: 690 (on /trunk/pypi)
committer: martin.von.loewis
timestamp: Sun 2009-11-29 17:15:12 +0000
message:
Update usage agreement according to Van Lindberg's instructions.
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The revision modifies various files for the web interface, changing the
wording of an agreement and requiring an “I agree” checkbox to be
checked.
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$ bzr diff --change 655 | diffstat
templates/openid_return.pt | 28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
templates/register.pt | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
webui.py | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
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The new wording is one that I can't agree to:
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[…]
+ <li>Content is restricted to Python packages and related information only.</li>
+ <li>Any content uploaded to PyPI is provided on a non-confidential basis.</li>
+ <li>The PSF is free to use or disseminate any content that I upload on an
+ unrestricted basis for any purpose. In particular, the PSF and all other
+ users of the web site are granted an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free,
+ nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, perform,
+ and publish the content, including in digital form.</li>
+ <li>I represent and warrant that I have complied with all government
+ regulations […]
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The content that I submit to PyPI is licensed under specific license
terms. That certainly does *not* allow the PSF to “use or disseminate
any content that I upload on an unrestricted basis for any purpose”,
etc.; it allows only those acts permitted by the license terms granted
in the work.
I have already registered an account at PyPI, and never agreed to this
wording. (The previous wording was much less broad and unobjectionable.)
I would not have noticed it changing if I had not been investigating the
PyPI website source code.
Will the PSF claim I am bound by it anyway? What about future changes?
Why was this wording chosen? How does the PSF propose to reconcile this
with copyright holders's chosen license terms for their work?
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Ben Finney
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