On May 7, 2010, at 12:47 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >> I think most FOSS authors are aware that putting their email in a package is >> effectively putting it in the clear on the internet. I think we have come >> beyond the days of "noah (at) coderanger [dot] net" and all those silly >> tricks that were popular not too long ago. If an author is excessively >> concerned about spam, they shouldn't put their email in author_email. Is >> that field mandatory now or something? Softpedia is a little annoying with >> the emails, but I've found them useful personally (along with >> versiontracker) when looking for OS X software before. Freshmeat is a >> similar index of FOSS projects, and I've definitely used that before. Is >> there some reason we are objecting to including PyPI data in other software >> catalogs? If it makes it a tiny bit easier to find Python software, I'm all >> for it. > > No, but the PSF should be asked for permission before using the data > on some other site.
Permission is probably not a good thing to inject, too much risk of being picky on who can use the data. If it is available to anyone, it should be available to all. I would agree that as a professional courtesy it would be nice if people would let us know if they are mining PyPI, but you are dipping into dangerous territory if you put a gate in front of it. --Noah _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
