Question about txzookeeper license

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Sun Dec 11 17:02:16 UTC 2011


On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Alexandre Parenteau's message of Sun Dec 11 01:43:20 -0800 2011:
>> Hi,
>>
>
> Hello and welcome!
>
>> My question relates to txzookeeper only, but I could not find a
>> specific mailing list, please let me know if there is a more
>> appropriate place to ask the question.
>>
>> In my company, I'd like to suggest to use txzookeeper for a
>> proprietary project, however I'm unsure of what is the license for it.
>>
>> - Launchpad lists the project as being GNU LGPL v3.
>> - Pypi lists it as both LGPL (no version) and MIT license
>> - The code itself has license files for both GNU GPL v3, and GNU LGPL v3
>>
>
> If you read COPYING.LESSER, it modifies COPYING to allow linking. This
> is the standard way of distributing the LGPL. Pypi is wrong, and should
> be fixed... not sure who controls the pypi distribution channel.. Kapil?

Pypi needs new trove entries to represent LGPL-3 specific. See
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2011-November/004028.html.

-Rob



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