2014-07-30 15:56 GMT+02:00 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 15:35 +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I now provide a snapshot version of PySCard myself at [1]. PySCard is >> a Python wrapper for PC/SC. >> See [2] for more details. > > Hello Ludovic, > Thank you for doing that. Just to let you know that what is preventing > this package from being included in Fedora is the unclear license of > some components. From [0], I think the most serious is: > smartcard/Observer.py > smartcard/Synchronization.py > taken from http://mindview.net/Books/TIPython; I didn't see a license > at first glance.
I found the book at http://docs.linuxtone.org/ebooks/Python/Thinking_In_Python.pdf And also a reference of the book at https://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvancedBooks I could not find an explicit license either. The book is also available in HTML form at http://python-3-patterns-idioms-test.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Observer.html with "© Copyright 2008, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Last updated on Jun 18, 2014. " A new version of the book is available at http://www.mindviewinc.com/Books/Python3Patterns/Index.php with "Published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. " So I guess the license should be "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0" for these two files. > However also: > smartcard/ClassLoader.py > taken from the Python Cookbook. The provided URL indicates the "psf" > license which I believe we call "Python", but I'm not certain. From the source code file: " Source: Robert Brewer at the Python Cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/223972 License: PSF license (http://docs.python.org/license.html). " The page http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/223972 is from September 2003 so the PSF license should be one that is compatible with GPL (according to the history at http://docs.python.org/license.html) I agree that a full license term with an exact license version would be better. > may be relevant, as the PSF license can make PySCard GPL-incompatible > ( https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PythonOld ). > > [0]. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663102 I guess I should try to contact Bruce Eckel and Robert Brewer and ask for clarification about the license. Regards, -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau _______________________________________________ Pcsclite-muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pcsclite-muscle
