On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thena...@logilab.fr> wrote: > On 25 août 09:36, afayolle wrote: >> On mer. 17 juil. 2013 12:24:46 CEST, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >Yeah that's an issue indeed. I would like to stick with a BSD-like licence >> >> Well, changing the license of a piece of code such as Pylint may not be >> that easy... There are several different contributors involved, and I'm >> not certain where main contributors (Logilab / Sylvain) stand on this. > > Logilab and I prefer to stick to the GPL mostly for philosophical reasons. If > it > stands to be a limitation to Pylint usage and development, we may change our > mind. That being said, as pointed by Alexandre, there as been a lot of > contributors to Pylint for the last 10 years, so even if we (Logilab) decided > to > change the license, it would take some time to do it properly by asking for > approval from the main contributors (supposing they would agree on the licence > change).
I could be entirely wrong here but I think we would be "safe" if we were to keep this as a plugin. Consider the fact that the plugin registers itself with Flake8 upon installation and Flake8 blindly imports it at run-time. With that in mind, we're never explicitly doing anything like `from pylint import (...)` or `from flake8_pylint import (...)` so we're never using the API of either per se. Since we're never actually doing that, I think we're exempt from the GPL's restrictions. The plugin, however, would have to be licensed under the GPL (or another license in the GPL's family). Again, I could be completely wrong, so don't take the above blindly as truth. My memory could very well be faulty at this early of an hour. _______________________________________________ code-quality mailing list code-quality@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/code-quality
