Will my project be accepted in pypi?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 4:06 AM, Kryptxy via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have built a command-line torrent fetching tool. The tool fetches torrents from thepiratebay proxy sites, and display results in console. Its written in python3, and is completely open-source.
>
> Project link - https://github.com/kryptxy/torrench
> (You may give it a try :p)
>
> Question: (a) Can I publish such tool on pypi?
> (b) Also, should I publish it on pypi?
>
> I ask (b) as the packages I used from pypi (pip) were more like utility packages. They helped me in building my project. My project, on the other end is a full-fledged tool. So should I publish it on pypi?
>

Yes, absolutely. There's nothing wrong with tools being on PyPI; for
instance, youtube-dl is available there.

> I ask (a) because the tool scraps TPB proxies, which aren't legal per se. So if I package and publish this tool, will it be accepted?

Personally, I'd go ahead and publish it. Torrenting is not illegal any
more than photocopying is; it's what you do with it that can be
illegal. (Unless the proxies themselves are violating TPB's TOS or
something - is that what you mean?) As long as your code isn't ITSELF
doing anything illegal, it should be fine.

ChrisA