On 28 May 2015 at 10:05, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. >
Bintray [1] has been providing a free service for hosting 'bottles'(compiled binaries) for the Homebrew project [2]. Probably an option to look at. [1] https://bintray.com/ [2] http://brew.sh/ > David > >> >> >> Andrew >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
