On October 14, 2015 at 3:05:57 PM, Robert Collins (robe...@robertcollins.net) 
wrote:
> On 15 October 2015 at 07:27, Donald Stufft 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 ?

2 Clause BSD and Apache v2.0.


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Donald Stufft
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