py3-nose patch currently violates Python Software Foundation’s copyright
Package Information
- Package name: py3-nose
- Package version: 1.3.7-12
- Alpine version: N/A
- Alpine architecture: N/A
Summary
The py3-nose
package currently incorporates python-nose-py312.patch
, which was taken from https://github.com/mdmintz/pynose. There were previously LGPL licensing issues with this project, but the project has since replaced its invalid MIT licence with the original LGPL that its upstream, nose, used.
However, it has since come to my attention that this compatibility patch that has been included in Alpine is a derivative work of PSLv2‐licensed CPython code without attribution or acknowledgement of the upstream licence. I’ve reported this issue to the pynose project on GitHub and am opening this issue to make you aware of the problem, so that you can take any immediate steps to address it that you feel necessary and monitor the progress on hopefully getting this fixed upstream.