Maybe you could omit license headers in your repo, but add them when building the sdist?
On 9 September 2013 20:57, Jonathan Hartley <tart...@tartley.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the input, people. > > FWIW, The folks downstream said their motivation was the continual > difficulty of automatically checking for acceptable licenses on the many > bits of (allegedly) FOSS they use. They have 4k of filenames that the > license checker can't currently account for, and re-checking them all > manually every few months is a continual drain. > > I'll roll over on this one. That the world is the way it is raises my > hackles, but no point me making life harder for some other blameless devs. > I'll squeeze it into 80 chars per file somehow. Thanks for the pointers on > that. > > Jonathan Hartley > http://tartley.com > > Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote: > > >On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 16:13 +0100, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > >> Why would a file ever be seen out of context? Surely to make my source > >> available without the LICENSE file is breaking the terms of my license, > >> so I'm not sure why I ought to jump through hoops just to cater for such > >> people. Am I wrong? > > > >You are both right and wrong. You are right that this should be the case > >in (programmer) logic. However the issue is what does the amalgam of > >statute, case law, barristers and judges make of the situation. > > > >I would suggest either complying with the request, or withdraw the > >material from licenced use. > > > >-- > >Russel. > > >============================================================================= > >Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net > >41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk > >London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > > >_______________________________________________ > >python-uk mailing list > >python-uk@python.org > >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >
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