-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/2013 09:59 PM, Ralph Bean wrote: > python-requests has a license change at version 1.0.0. > > We currently have the old version packaged, licensed ISC. The new > version is licensed Apache2. > > https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/5c1bc201c46297d39d591e5d30e0e65a989bd22c > > We've been hesitating about whether or not to update because we're > not sure what impact the license change will have on dependant > packages/applications. > > For instance, a hypothetical GPLv2 python program may currently be > importing python-requests for use at runtime. If we updated > python-requests (from ISC to Apache2), would we be throwing that > program into a license violation? > > Should we go ahead and update? Do we need to take any special > precautions? Go ahead, mere use (and not code copying) of independent modules in a true interpreted language environment (like Python) is not a situation where Fedora is generally concerned about license compatibility, as long as those multiply licensed modules are not compiled together into a single binary and there is no code copying between the two. ~tom == Fedora Project -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEr9ZwACgkQPF6ZrZMFQmBKigCeMhyYUMyWXJgftTpUtwucwdd6 s9UAniIFsO4hnOvboNIx2Sn5YkBTDHdZ =S8TX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
