[Numpy-discussion] Verify your sourceforge windows installer downloads

[Saket Choudhary]

On 28 May 2015 at 10:05, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Andrew Collette <andrew.collette at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> > Here is their lame excuse:
>> >
>> >
>> > https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/
>> >
>> > It probably means this:
>> >
>> > If NumPy installers are moved away from Sourceforge, they will set up a
>> > mirror and load the mirrored installers with all sorts of crapware. It
>> > is
>> > some sort of racket the mob couldn't do better.
>>
>> I noticed that like most BSD-licensed software, NumPy's license
>> includes this clause:
>>
>> "Neither the name of the NumPy Developers nor the names of any
>> contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
>> this software without specific prior written permission."
>>
>> There's an argument to be made that SF isn't legally permitted to
>> distribute poisoned installers under the name "NumPy" without
>> permission.  I recall a similar dust-up a while ago about "Standard
>> Markdown" using the name "Markdown"; the original author (John Gruber)
>> took action and got them to change the name.
>>
>> In any case I've always been surprised that NumPy is distributed
>> through SourceForge, which has been sketchy for years now. Could it
>> simply be hosted on PyPI?
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>
> They don't accept arbitrary binaries like SF does, and some of our installer
> formats can't be uploaded there.
>

Bintray [1] has been providing a free service for hosting
'bottles'(compiled binaries) for the Homebrew project [2].
Probably an option to look at.

[1] https://bintray.com/
[2] http://brew.sh/



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