[Catalog-sig] Use user-specific site-packages by default?

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides the issues with validating that the package We are mirroring
> is the authentic one there's also a legal issue. We don't know for sure
> that we have the legal rights to redistribute those files. When you upload
> a file to PyPI you grant the PSF a license to do that, no upload from the
> author = no license. IANAL but i think i'm correct on that.

Absolutely, but if the package is marked with a license that allows
redistribution in the metadata, then we can.

//Lennart