[Fedora-packaging] python bundled library question

[Jon Ciesla]

> I'm in the middle of reviewing
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751925 python-tables and
> came Toshio's useful link
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Unbundling_Python_Modules
>
> The maintainer has licensed the package as multi-license BSD and AFL -
> on investigating it seems to included another file from a package here
> http://evan.prodromou.name/Software/Python/LRUCache, however the
> python-table developers have modified it significantly for there own
> use, albeit with the same file and class name.
>
> Does this still constitute a bundled library or is it OK to include as is?
>
> The file in question lrucache.py is released under the AFL license and
> is attributed correctly in the python-tables source (by way of a copy
> of the original lrucache license).

If it's significantly modified it may qualify for a copylib exception, but
you may want to file a trac for FPC for further evaluation.  Are there
reasons why the modifications haven't been sent upstream?

-J

> thanks for your help
>
> Brendan
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