Update LICENSE file to match doc/users/license.rst #6098
Merged
Conversation
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
|
So, it is supposed to be a PSF license, not a BSD license. Our setup.py (and therefore our pypi page) has the license listed as BSD. Don't know if there is much of a distinction there, but thought I should point that out, too. |
| alone or in any derivative version, provided, however, that JDH's | ||
| License Agreement and JDH's notice of copyright, i.e., "Copyright (c) | ||
| 2002-2011 John D. Hunter; All Rights Reserved" are retained in | ||
| matplotlib 1.2.0 alone or in any derivative version prepared by | ||
| 2002-2009 John D. Hunter; All Rights Reserved" are retained in |
|
What is the rationale for including the pre-1.3 license in the present and future releases? A person using git to pull out any earlier version, or downloading an old tarball, will get the old license. |
|
IANAL, but I would believe that one could take issue with the re-licensing, it seems safer to just keep all applicable licenses in the 'current' repo. |
|
I've addressed the year comments. |
tacaswell
added a commit
that referenced
this pull request
Mar 7, 2016
Update LICENSE file to match doc/users/license.rst
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Our current LICENSE file still refers only to John Hunter. We changed this years ago in the docs but not in the obvious place to look for it in the source code.