Re: [Python-Dev] Changing the licence of statistics.py

2016-08-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 04:27:21AM +, Brett Cannon wrote: > Are you the sole author of the statistics module prior to contributing it, > Steve? Yes. There has been at least one patch to the module as part of the standard library by someone else: http://bugs.python.org/issue26002 but

Re: [Python-Dev] Changing the licence of statistics.py

2016-08-13 Thread Ned Deily
On Aug 14, 2016, at 00:20, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm the author of statistics.py, and for historical reasons it was > originally included in the standard library under the Apache licence. > > I now wish to change that and have it licenced under Python's standard >

Re: [Python-Dev] Changing the licence of statistics.py

2016-08-13 Thread Brett Cannon
Are you the sole author of the statistics module prior to contributing it, Steve? On Sat, Aug 13, 2016, 21:21 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm the author of statistics.py, and for historical reasons it was > originally included in the standard library under the Apache licence.

[Python-Dev] Changing the licence of statistics.py

2016-08-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
I'm the author of statistics.py, and for historical reasons it was originally included in the standard library under the Apache licence. I now wish to change that and have it licenced under Python's standard licence. Is there anything I need to do other than just remove the Apache licence

Re: [Python-Dev] Issues in Python TLS

2016-08-13 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Correctness of TLS certificate verification is known to depend deeply on distribution. Python began to verify certificates by default only in in version 2.7.9. Many OS distributions (in particular, Ubuntu) did not enable verification for their stable distributions for backwards compatibility

[Python-Dev] Issues in Python TLS

2016-08-13 Thread Mauri Miettinen
Hello, We are experimenting with a tool for inspecting how well languages and libraries support server certificate verification when establishing TLS connections. We are getting rather confusing results in our first major shootout of bundled CPython 2 and 3 versions in major, still supported OS

[Python-Dev] Reminder: 3.6.0a4 snapshot 2016-08-15 12:00 UTC

2016-08-13 Thread Ned Deily
The next and final alpha snapshot planned for the 3.6 release cycle is coming up soon. Keep in mind that the feature development phase of the 3.6 release cycle is nearing an end. The next major milestone is a big one: the first beta shapshot, 3.6.0b1, scheduled for Monday, 09-12, a little