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

[Jeffrey Clark]

Thanks both for the input.

   - The point about board approval not mailing list approval is well
   taken, does my question here constitute a request to the board or is there
   something else I should do?
   - Trove classifiers are part of PEP 301:
   https://peps.python.org/pep-0301/ in case that helps.


Alex

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*Jeffrey "Alex" Clark*
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On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM Luis Villa <luis at lu.is> wrote:

> Sort of dumb/naive question: who "owns" the trove classifiers? I hate
> phone calls as a solution to FOSS problems, but I suspect this is one of
> those things that might be better hashed out over 1-2 calls where a few of
> us who understand the licensing problems and those who understand the
> technical and social constraints of pypa toss some ideas around.
>
> My gut is that Trove probably needs a new 'mid-tier' category (no idea
> what the right nomenclature is in pypa world)— License :: SPDX-registered
> :: (license) — that allows for accurate Trove information without requiring
> OSI to approve every license under the sun.
> On Jul 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM -0600, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com>,
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 1:23 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Totally unrelated but in case anyone in the OSI and/or Python
> communities cares and is motivated/knowledgeable to try to change
> this:
> One of the TROVE license classifiers is:
> "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)"
> however, if I'm not mistaken (and I hope I'm not), no version of the
> FDL has ever been OSI approved.
>
>
> I opened an issue about this here:
> https://github.com/pypa/trove-classifiers/issues/183
>
> Richard
>
>
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