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Re: Forking PyPI package

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2014-05-29 15:54 -0600
Subject Re: Forking PyPI package
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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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?

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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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