On 15 October 2015 at 07:27, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > On October 14, 2015 at 2:25:31 PM, Nathaniel Smith (n...@pobox.com) wrote: >> On Oct 14, 2015 11:12 AM, "Donald Stufft" wrote: >> > >> [...] >> >> Apparently some packages were making assumptions about the format of the >> numpy.__version__ string, and having .postN in there caused errors when >> they tried to process it. (It would be helpful if there were a little >> permissively licensed standalone implementation of PEP 440 comparisons, >> suitable for the "if pkg.version > ...:" checks that people insist on doing >> -- I couldn't find one in some quick searches.) >> > >> > https://github.com/pypa/packaging >> > >> > It’s what both pip and setuptools use (though we embed it, but it’s fine >> to depend on it too). >> >> That's under Apache 2, so it can't be used by GPLv2 packages, or any >> package that might be used by GPLv2 packages. > > I suspect it’d be trivial to relicense it. There’s a total of 6 contributors > and I think I know how to get ahold of all of them.
Presumably to MIT + ApacheV2 ? -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
