mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧 on Nostr: Honestly, reading the #PyNose #license violation report (see ...
Honestly, reading the #PyNose #license violation report (see https://floss.social/@hroncok/112739484443101171) makes your hair stand.
For the record, it's about the person who took all of nose (LGPL-2.1) and republished it under their own name as MIT. Potentially also took a number of pull requests made to fix it but it's not immediately clear since the complete commit history.
> Lots of nose made its way into pytest (MIT License).
Right. If somebody else took some code and relicensed it (potentially violating the license), then it's fine for you to take the whole thing and relicense it (definitely violating the license).
> Another thing: GitHub never recognized the original nose license, as it doesn't appear in the original repo's information section.
Right. If GitHub didn't show the license, then it obviously was public domain!
> I'll wait for a member of https://github.com/nose-devs to request a license change here (if that's what they want).
Right, the "sue me" attitude.
https://github.com/mdmintz/pynose/issues/16
#copyright #Python #Gentoo #FreeSoftware
For the record, it's about the person who took all of nose (LGPL-2.1) and republished it under their own name as MIT. Potentially also took a number of pull requests made to fix it but it's not immediately clear since the complete commit history.
> Lots of nose made its way into pytest (MIT License).
Right. If somebody else took some code and relicensed it (potentially violating the license), then it's fine for you to take the whole thing and relicense it (definitely violating the license).
> Another thing: GitHub never recognized the original nose license, as it doesn't appear in the original repo's information section.
Right. If GitHub didn't show the license, then it obviously was public domain!
> I'll wait for a member of https://github.com/nose-devs to request a license change here (if that's what they want).
Right, the "sue me" attitude.
https://github.com/mdmintz/pynose/issues/16
#copyright #Python #Gentoo #FreeSoftware