Re: License terms for ‘python-daemon’ code

[stephan schultchen]

Would you be so kind to point out, where i can find the public VSC
Repository?

It would also be great if you could write a line in the pypi documentation


2014-08-04 8:06 GMT+02:00 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>:

> On 01-Aug-2014, stephan schultchen wrote:
> > What the hack?
> > the distribution i have (1.5.6), is released under the PSF-2
> > license.
>
> You're right, past versions were released with the library code
> licensed under PSF-2. That license is inappropriate as described at
> <URL:
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq#Contributing_Code_to_Python
> >
> and this mistake was addressed a while ago.
>
> > From my point of view, the code i have, was never released under a
> > appropriate license.
>
> In the absence of an appropriate license, you have no permission to
> make and distribute a derived work from it.
>
> However, the intent is certainly to allow derived works, and the ASF-2
> license allows this if you comply with its terms.
>
> The ASF-2 license had been applied in the public VCS, but no release
> of ‘python-daemon’ had been made since that time. Thank you for
> bringing that omission to my attention.
>
> I have now released version 1.6.1 to make the ASF-2 apply clearly to
> the library code <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/1.6.1/>.
>
> Please feel free to base your work on that, as you have done with a
> previous version; on condition you comply with the license terms as
> described in my earlier message.
>
> Thank you again!
>
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