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Re: Forking PyPI package

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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you absolutely can't get in touch with him, the only option is to
>> go back to the original protocol and manually reimplement it,
>> completely ignoring this code. It's sad but true; some code dies
>> because of a trivial thing like "Oops, I forgot to actually say that
>> this is MIT-licensed".
>
> The second part of that is that the code should actually *include* the
> license text. Just writing "BSD license" somewhere on the website or
> in package metadata is annoyingly common but somewhat questionable in
> how a judge might interpret it.  For instance, there at least four
> different versions of the BSD license; which one did you mean?

Agreed. I tend to have a file called README or LICENSE in the main
source code directory that has license terms (in the case of a README,
the license will follow whatever else there is to say); that's
generally clear enough, without having to put a header on every single
source file.

I like to put both a short name and the full license text in there
(see eg https://github.com/Rosuav/Yosemite for which I use the MIT
license), so it's independent of random web sites - having nothing but
a link to the license text makes it that bit more vulnerable.

ChrisA

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Forking PyPI package Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-05-29 02:31 +0200
  Re: Forking PyPI package Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-28 22:06 -0400
  Re: Forking PyPI package Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 17:40 +1000
    Re: Forking PyPI package Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-29 07:56 +0000
      Re: Forking PyPI package Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 18:06 +1000
  Re: Forking PyPI package Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-05-29 10:49 +0200
  Re: Forking PyPI package Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 15:54 -0600
    Re: Forking PyPI package Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-06-05 18:56 +0200
      Re: Forking PyPI package Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-06 03:37 +1000
        Re: Forking PyPI package Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-06-06 02:15 +0200
          Re: Forking PyPI package Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2014-06-06 15:26 +0400
  Re: Forking PyPI package Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 10:26 +1000

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