[Fedora-legal-list] python-requests relicensing question

[Tom Callaway]

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On 02/25/2013 09:59 PM, Ralph Bean wrote:
> python-requests has a license change at version 1.0.0.
> 
> We currently have the old version packaged, licensed ISC. The new
> version is licensed Apache2.
> 
> https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/5c1bc201c46297d39d591e5d30e0e65a989bd22c
>
>  We've been hesitating about whether or not to update because we're
> not sure what impact the license change will have on dependant 
> packages/applications.
> 
> For instance, a hypothetical GPLv2 python program may currently be 
> importing python-requests for use at runtime.  If we updated 
> python-requests (from ISC to Apache2), would we be throwing that 
> program into a license violation?
> 
> Should we go ahead and update?  Do we need to take any special
> precautions?

Go ahead, mere use (and not code copying) of independent modules in a
true interpreted language environment (like Python) is not a situation
where Fedora is generally concerned about license compatibility, as
long as those multiply licensed modules are not compiled together into
a single binary and there is no code copying between the two.

~tom

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