What the hack? the distribution i have (1.5.6), is released under the PSF-2 license.
this can be found at the head of every source code file: # daemon/daemon.py # Part of python-daemon, an implementation of PEP 3143. # # Copyright © 2008–2010 Ben Finney <[email protected]> # Copyright © 2007–2008 Robert Niederreiter, Jens Klein # Copyright © 2004–2005 Chad J. Schroeder # Copyright © 2003 Clark Evans # Copyright © 2002 Noah Spurrier # Copyright © 2001 Jürgen Hermann # # This is free software: you may copy, modify, and/or distribute this work # under the terms of the Python Software Foundation License, version 2 or # later as published by the Python Software Foundation. # No warranty expressed or implied. See the file LICENSE.PSF-2 for details. And there are two other license files in the root directory of the source code: LICENSE.GPL-2 LICENSE.PSF-2 no sign of ASF-2. From my point of view, the code i have, was never released under a appropriate license. cheers stephan 2014-08-01 2:05 GMT+02:00 Ben Finney <[email protected]>: > On 31-Jul-2014, stephan schultchen wrote: > > > > Your work is clearly based on the ‘python-daemon’ code, and that's > > > good. But I am finding it difficult to follow: > > > > > well, i tried to only stick to the pep, and not to do a refactor of > > the python-daemon implementation. but yes, i copied some parts, for > > example the doc string, because i was to lazy to type my own version > > of it. > > That's great, and the code grants you explicit permission (via the > ASF-2 license) to copy and redistribute it, in whole or in part. The > permission is conditional on you also doing these: > > * give all recipients a copy of the ASF-2 license text (as in the > ‘python-daemon’ code base); > > * make clear in the work that it is derived from ‘python-daemon’; > > * retain the copyright notices for the parts of the work you include. > > So, you have full permission to copy the parts as you have done, but > you need to follow the ASF-2 copyright license terms when you do. > > > to be honest, creating a daemon is no rocket science, the steps to > > do this are well defined, so there are not many ways to implement > > one. > > Regardless, you only have permission to copy parts of a work for this > purpose by following the license terms. > > > nevertheless, my intend was to publish pep3143daemon later under the > > MIT Licence, and i will also add a reference to the python-daemon > > package, with thanksgiving to the work that was done by all the > > other guys. > > Changing the license terms isn't permitted, the ASF-2 license applies > to the parts of the work you've got from ‘python-daemon’. You're free > to make a derived work, as you've done, under those terms :-) > > Thanks for understanding and respecting the copyright of the authors. > > -- > \ “I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political | > `\ office he's ever held legally.” —George Carlin, 2008 | > _o__) | > Ben Finney <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > python-daemon-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-daemon-devel > >
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