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[Python-Dev] My CLA

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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