The author of the package is clearly confused with respect to licensing. It appears he's using CC Attribution-Non Commercial which allows unlimited, non-commercial redistribution. If you release something under a CC license, you can't also required permission for redistribution. We also specifically discourage the use of CC licenses for software -- they just weren't designed for that purpose and there are lots of excellent open source/free software licenses that were.
For what it's worth. Nathan On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --On 28. August 2008 16:30:27 +0200 Joachim König-Baltes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Today I got aware of pySSH_Monitor through my RSS reader. Trying to >> download >> the code by clicking on the download link on pypi I got redirected to >> www.pypi.info >> that requires registration through invitation only (by whoom anyway?). >> >> Looking a bit closer at the licensing information on pypi for the >> package, the licensing is very restrictive, >> e.g. >> >> - "may not be used for any commercial purpose whatsoever ..." >> - as long as "... there was never any intent to use this package to >> generate any income of any kind." >> - "...may not redistribute this package without prior written permission >> from the author." >> >> see below for details. > > The package is released under the Creative Commons license. > And of course it is legitimate to use such a license - even if it > excludes the use for commercial use. > > >> What's the community's opinion on that? > > That's the first time I see the CC in the context of software (I thought the > CC would be focused on print works, book etc.). Anyway...the exclusion of > commercial usage is just stupid (possibly it is unintended by the author). > No idea what the intention of the author is. If one wants some revenues from > a commercial usage, one can always dual-license a software...prohibitting > its use for a commercial purpose under all circumstances is just odd. > > -aj > > > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig > > _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
