#70344 closed defect (fixed)
py312-pynose: license/copyright violation upstream
| Reported by: | awilfox (A. Wilcox) | Owned by: | reneeotten (Renee Otten) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Port: | py312-pynose |
Description
Hello,
The pynose project claims to be MIT licensed, but is an unlicensed fork of an LGPL-2.1-only project. At least one significant contributor to the original LGPL-2.1-only project has requested upstream to cease. It therefore is not legal to (re)distribute pynose as it stands.
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 2 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
comment:2 Changed 2 months ago by reneeotten (Renee Otten)
Thank you for bringing this to my/our attention. I have removed the port and disabled the tests in the affected ports.
comment:3 Changed 2 months ago by reneeotten (Renee Otten)
comment:4 Changed 2 months ago by neverpanic (Clemens Lang)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
comment:5 Changed 2 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Version 1.5.2 has been released which corrects the licensing back to LGPL so the port could be re-added.
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Based on the conversation in that issue and the one of which it is a duplicate, the developer of this fork appears not to understand or possibly to care how licenses work. Unless the developer fixes the license of the fork to be LGPL-2.1-only, we should delete this port like other distributions are doing.
The following ports depend on py-pynose but only as test dependencies:
Their test suites could simply be disabled.