[License-review] MIT-CMU license for Python Pillow

[Jeffrey Clark]

Yes please! Or at least do you think it's OK to submit a request to PyPI
for a TROVE classifier as described in
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/7942 based on this
discussion? Thank you

Alex

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*Jeffrey "Alex" Clark*
Python Pillow <https://python-pillow.org> Creator
ACLARK.NET, LLC <https://aclark.net> President
DC Python <https://dcpython.org> Executive Director
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 7:04 PM Josh Berkus <josh at berkus.org> wrote:

> Hey, committee:
>
> Can we have some feedback on this?  Let's not run out the clock.
>
> On 6/17/24 09:34, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >
> >> Would it be possible to add the legacy "MIT-CMU" license to the OSI
> >> approved licenses list so Python Pillow (Python Imaging Library fork)
> >> project can update its license to MIT-CMU, which we now consider "more
> >> correct" than HPND, details here:
> >
> > My vote: this license is clearly open source, and it would make sense to
> > have it listed with the note that it is an MIT variant.
> >
> > At some stage, it might be good to go through the rest of the list of
> > "MIT variants"; nice of Fedora to have collected them for us (although I
> > don't agree that all of these are MIT variants, but some of them
> > obviously are).  We might want to discuss how to represent these on the
> > website.
> >
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
>
>
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