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I'm still yet to meet a lawyer who trusts "public domain" statements...

The CLA will ensure we have enough rights to republish the PEP on p.o or future sites, and it doesn't prevent authors from also releasing the text elsewhere under other terms.

Top-posted from my Windows Phone

From: Zachary Ware
Sent: ‎1/‎21/‎2016 9:23
To: Python-Dev
Subject: Re: \[Python-Dev\] Update PEP 7 to require curly braces in C

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 at 23:07 Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> - I wasn't aware of that
>> requirement, so I've never explicitly checked CLA status for folks
>> contributing packaging related PEPs. (And looking at the
>> just-checked-in PEP 513, I apparently have a CLA to chase up...)
>
> Yeah, I didn't know either until I asked Van, so I think it's new to
> everyone. :)

It's quite surprising to me, since all (as far as I know) PEPs are
explicitly public domain. I am very much not a lawyer, though :)

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Zach
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