<div dir="ltr"><div><div>What the hack?<br><br></div>the distribution i have (1.5.6), is released under the PSF-2 license.<br><br></div>this can be found at the head of every source code file:<br><br># daemon/daemon.py<br>
# Part of python-daemon, an implementation of PEP 3143.<br>#<br># Copyright © 2008–2010 Ben Finney <<a href="mailto:ben%2Bpython@benfinney.id.au">ben+python@benfinney.id.au</a>><br># Copyright © 2007–2008 Robert Niederreiter, Jens Klein<br>
# Copyright © 2004–2005 Chad J. Schroeder<br># Copyright © 2003 Clark Evans<br># Copyright © 2002 Noah Spurrier<br># Copyright © 2001 Jürgen Hermann<br>#<br># This is free software: you may copy, modify, and/or distribute this work<br>
# under the terms of the Python Software Foundation License, version 2 or<br># later as published by the Python Software Foundation.<br># No warranty expressed or implied. See the file LICENSE.PSF-2 for details.<br><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And there are two other license files in the root directory of the source code:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">LICENSE.GPL-2<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">LICENSE.PSF-2<br><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">no sign of ASF-2. From my point of view, the code i have, was never released under a appropriate license.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers<br><br>stephan<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-01 2:05 GMT+02:00 Ben Finney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben+python@benfinney.id.au" target="_blank">ben+python@benfinney.id.au</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 31-Jul-2014, stephan schultchen wrote:<br>
<br>
> > Your work is clearly based on the ‘python-daemon’ code, and that's<br>
> > good. But I am finding it difficult to follow:<br>
> ><br>
> well, i tried to only stick to the pep, and not to do a refactor of<br>
> the python-daemon implementation. but yes, i copied some parts, for<br>
> example the doc string, because i was to lazy to type my own version<br>
> of it.<br>
<br>
That's great, and the code grants you explicit permission (via the<br>
ASF-2 license) to copy and redistribute it, in whole or in part. The<br>
permission is conditional on you also doing these:<br>
<br>
* give all recipients a copy of the ASF-2 license text (as in the<br>
‘python-daemon’ code base);<br>
<br>
* make clear in the work that it is derived from ‘python-daemon’;<br>
<br>
* retain the copyright notices for the parts of the work you include.<br>
<br>
So, you have full permission to copy the parts as you have done, but<br>
you need to follow the ASF-2 copyright license terms when you do.<br>
<br>
> to be honest, creating a daemon is no rocket science, the steps to<br>
> do this are well defined, so there are not many ways to implement<br>
> one.<br>
<br>
Regardless, you only have permission to copy parts of a work for this<br>
purpose by following the license terms.<br>
<br>
> nevertheless, my intend was to publish pep3143daemon later under the<br>
> MIT Licence, and i will also add a reference to the python-daemon<br>
> package, with thanksgiving to the work that was done by all the<br>
> other guys.<br>
<br>
Changing the license terms isn't permitted, the ASF-2 license applies<br>
to the parts of the work you've got from ‘python-daemon’. You're free<br>
to make a derived work, as you've done, under those terms :-)<br>
<br>
Thanks for understanding and respecting the copyright of the authors.<br>
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