[Python-Dev] Mesenne Twister copyright notice (original) (raw)

Michael McLay mmclay@comcast.net
Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:49:42 -0500

On Sunday 29 December 2002 06:23 pm, Skip Montanaro wrote:

Jack> On the other thread: will including the copyright Jack> notices/acknowledgements in the documentation be good enough if we Jack> don't always ship the documentation?

Is there any reason the copyright builtin can't be embellished to spit out all the necessary copyrights?

A requirement could be added to the PEP 2 that would require a copyright disclosure be included in the package/module so that the name "copyright" would retrieve the relevant copyright for that package/module. A copyright that did not require disclosure would return None.

(BTW, PEP two is titled "Procedure for Adding New Modules". Should that be renamed "Procedure for Adding New Modules and Packages"?)

import mycoolpackage mycoolpackage.copyright 'All rights to the use of mycoolpackage are hereby granted to the PSF. \n\n
enjoy - authors of mycoolpackage\n'

The copyright builtin could be extended to add a search of all imported libraries to retrieve all of the copyrights that are used in an application.