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Re: use of waf in pyinstaller (was: blhc)

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Subject	Re: use of waf in pyinstaller (was: blhc)
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On December 7, 2024 5:29:39 PM UTC, Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> wrote:
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>I have not had any experience with waf before, and so am not aware of DFSG or 
>malware difficulties that other projects have faced.  In the case of 
>PyInstaller, most of the waf code is contained in:
>
>https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/pyinstaller/-/tree/debian/
>master/bootloader/waflib?ref_type=heads
>
>It is written in Python and licensed under the BSD-3-clause.  It is used to 
>compile the C code in:
>
>https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/pyinstaller/-/tree/debian/
>master/bootloader/src?ref_type=heads
>
>Which is licensed under the GPL-2+~with-bootloader-exception, which is the 
>main license of the project.  The resulting bootloader (two files) is shipped 
>in the binary package in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyInstaller/
>bootloader/Linux-64bit-intel/*.
>
>None of this looks problematic to me.  However, if there are any concerns I 
>have missed I would be very interested to hear of them before I submit 
>PyInstaller to the NEW queue.

Have a look at the waf entry in the FTP Team reject FAQ:

https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html

Scott K

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