[Python-Dev] My CLA (original) (raw)

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 20:57:31 CET 2013

On Monday, February 11, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:07:50 +0300 anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com (mailto:techtonik at gmail.com)> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org (mailto:guido at python.org)> wrote: > > > Anatoly, stop this discussion NOW. It is not appropriate for python-dev > > and you risk being banned from python-dev if you keep it up. > > > > It is not a problem for me to keep silence for another couple of months. > But this weekend there will be an open source conference in Belarus [1], > and I will need to explain what this specific CLA is about in > developer-friendly language translated to Russian.

The Python contributor agreement allows the PSF to safely redistribute your contributions under its own license, the PSF license. The Python contributor agreement is not a copyright assignment: you legally remain the author of the code you contributed (i.e. you can also publish it elsewhere under any license you want). Regards Antoine. FWIW: Django's FAQ spells out the same reasons we have one for Python:

https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/cla/faq/

just s/Django/Python/ and s/Django Software Foundation/Python Software Foundation/ - it's a good concise FAQ.

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