[Catalog-sig] Troubled by changes to PyPI usage agreement

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Dec 9 06:44:40 CET 2009


> Who audits them now, to ensure that the works don't have license terms
> that prohibit some action that the PSF takes?

That's exactly the point of the agreement: we will *not* audit any
content uploaded, simply because we don't have the time to do so.
Instead, the PyPI users must permit the PSF (and, thus, PyPI) to
redistribute the packages, regardless of what the licenses say.

Regards,
Martin


More information about the Catalog-SIG mailing list