[code-quality] Flake8 News

[Ben Finney]

afayolle <afayolle.ml at free.fr> writes:

> Be aware of the licensing issue, though : depending on the way flake8
> works (subprocess or import), the GPL license of Pylint could be an
> issue if the flake8 authors want to stick to MIT.

What is the issue, exactly?

As I understand it, a work licensed under GPL terms can be derived in
part from work under different license terms, so long as that license
does not impose any further restrictions.

Redistribution of the derived work would need to satisfy simultaneously
all the license terms of all the parts from which it derives.

Is Flake8 distributed under license terms that impose restrictions
additional to the GPL? If not, I don't know what the problem is.

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Ben Finney