2014-07-31 17:14 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Rousseau <[email protected]>: > 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.
Fixed in revision 619. https://sourceforge.net/p/pyscard/code/619/ >> 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. I could not find Robert Brewer email. His posts are 10 years old :-( I could not find clearly versionned "PSF license". What information is missing so that Fedora can accept the software? Thanks -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau _______________________________________________ Pcsclite-muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pcsclite-muscle
