From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:57:42 +0000 (-0700) Subject: setup: stop claiming that we are under GPL in the "license" field of the PyPI database X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-0.6.1~4 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/%22news.html/provisioning?a=commitdiff_plain;h=41a5e702765abccab162a9c27c00a023d029eb44;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git setup: stop claiming that we are under GPL in the "license" field of the PyPI database Unfortunately, there is no way to claim that we are under a Free Software/Open Source licence without also claiming to be under a licence that we are not or claiming to have approval from DFSG or OSI, which we haven't. Until now, I erred on the side of choosing the licence that is closest to our from the list (GPL), but that was a bad idea and now I'm erring on the side of not including a machine-readable licensing claim at all. Hopefully humans who are interested will quickly find out that we are actually under a Real Free Software Licence. But really, this underscores that we need to talk to FSF, edit our licence for clarity of intent, and submit it to DFSG/OSI. --- diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py index 143fa427..1fd88f6f 100644 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ trove_classifiers=[ "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha", "Environment :: Console", "Environment :: Web Environment", - "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)", - "License :: DFSG approved", + "License :: Free Software (GPL variant)", # Not a real acceptable value. I guess this means we really need to get our licence DFSG/OSI approved. + "License :: Open Source (GPL variant)", # Not a real acceptable value. I guess this means we really need to get our licence DFSG/OSI approved. "Intended Audience :: Developers", "Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop", "Intended Audience :: System Administrators",