[Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

[Donald Stufft]

On May 8, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 9 May 2014 07:23, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> > On May 8, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Or
> > > maybe we have to accept that some developers have sound reasons for
> > > not hosting on PyPI and work with them to find an acceptable
> > > compromise? Has anyone checked what Stefan's reasons are for not
> > > hosting cdecimal on PyPI? Do they represent a use case that the PEP
> > > hasn't considered?
> >
> > If I recall correctly his reasoning is that he finds the legal requirements
> > associated with uploading to PyPI to be unsatisfactory.
> 
> I actually need to follow up on that, because the terms *were* legally questionable last time I looked (also too hard to review, since as far as I am aware, they're only presented during new user sign-up).
> 
> I'll deal with that at work today.
> 
> 
> 
I’m pretty sure VanL wrote the terms and has explicitly said they won’t change and are exactly as broad as they need to be without being any broader[1]. They are linked to from the footer of every UI centric PyPI page.

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-legal-sig/2013-March/000003.html

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