On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Andrew Collette <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Here is their lame excuse: > > > > > https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/ > > > > It probably means this: > > > > If NumPy installers are moved away from Sourceforge, they will set up a > > mirror and load the mirrored installers with all sorts of crapware. It is > > some sort of racket the mob couldn't do better. > > I noticed that like most BSD-licensed software, NumPy's license > includes this clause: > > "Neither the name of the NumPy Developers nor the names of any > contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from > this software without specific prior written permission." > > There's an argument to be made that SF isn't legally permitted to > distribute poisoned installers under the name "NumPy" without > permission. I recall a similar dust-up a while ago about "Standard > Markdown" using the name "Markdown"; the original author (John Gruber) > took action and got them to change the name. > > In any case I've always been surprised that NumPy is distributed > through SourceForge, which has been sketchy for years now. Could it > simply be hosted on PyPI? > They don't accept arbitrary binaries like SF does, and some of our installer formats can't be uploaded there. David > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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