Re: [pygame] PCR & other notes

[Scott Russell <scott@pantastik.com>]

Thanks for the links.

Regarding licensing: I haven't responded yet because I wanted to think
on it longer, but I lean towards public doman as well, in which case a)
no license is necessary, and b) the code can be used in gpl'ed products
just fine.  Or BSD, artisitic, and proprietary apps.

Yes, this means that if you want to preserve credit, enforce "ongoing
freeness", or prevent the military from using it, you'll have to find
some other method to distribute your code samples to the public.  Would
this discourage many of you? (Going now to check how the ASPN cookbook
is "licensed.")


On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 17:35, Pete Shinners wrote:
> Scott Russell wrote:
> > Absolutely - we can use as much input as possible.  And just as
> > importantly, I need that tarball you owe me, Pete -- or I'm going to
> > just scrape the data and rewrite the PCR from scratch. :)
> 
> my bad there. either my mind is slipping or my outgoing mail is randomly 
> getting tripped up. and i'm pretty sure the server is ok.
> 
> current pcr site
> http://www.pygame.org/ftp/contrib/pcr_site.tar.gz
> 
> current pcr submissions
> http://www.pygame.org/ftp/contrib/pcr_submissions.tar.gz
> 
> 
> sylvain also mentioned a license issue. i think GPL is too restrictive 
> for something like a code cookbook. even BSD requires "credit to 
> author", which is nice but i don't think should be required. currently 
> the pcr is "public domain" which means you can do anything to anyone 
> with the code. if there's a more appropriate license that defines this 
> we could switch to that?
>