Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] Metadata-Version in PKG-INFO

2009-04-19 Thread Carlos Tejo Alonso
BTW, I asked today a friend who is involved in license issue and she explained me that: if the version of a license is not declared in a software product, that means that the license applied is the last one. The last one at the time of licensing or the last one at the time someone comes back

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] Metadata-Version in PKG-INFO

2009-04-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
2018 - LGPL 3.0 is released 2019 - Package X is licensed by LPGL (no version) 2020 - LPGL 4.0 is released 2021 - What's the license of the package X? LGPL 4.0 IANAL, but I don't believe this example; in addition, I consider it fairly artificial. The LGPL recommends that you include a verbatim

Re: [Distutils] Questionnaire: Why do you use setuptools?

2009-04-19 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:19:31AM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: What are the other major reasons people use setuptools? - setuptools.find_pacakges built-in SVN support makes a whole class of packaging errors go away for me. - virtualenv makes isolation between different applications sane;

Re: [Distutils] Questionnaire: Why do you use setuptools?

2009-04-19 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:09:11AM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: I don't actually know what features of setuptools people use. 1. 'python setup.py sdist register upload' (you could say this is a distutils feature, but my packages tend to unconditionally import setuptools in their setup.py)

Re: [Distutils] [Catalog-sig] Metadata-Version in PKG-INFO

2009-04-19 Thread Fred Drake
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: However, that wording is specific to the LGPL (and the GPL), and does not apply to any other license. More importantly, it only applies if you specifically include it. The problem I see is with non-specification; it