25 Feb
2013
25 Feb
'13
8:59 p.m.
python-requests has a license change at version 1.0.0.
We currently have the old version packaged, licensed ISC. The new version is licensed Apache2.
https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/5c1bc201c46297d39d591e5d30e0...
We've been hesitating about whether or not to update because we're not sure what impact the license change will have on dependant packages/applications.
For instance, a hypothetical GPLv2 python program may currently be importing python-requests for use at runtime. If we updated python-requests (from ISC to Apache2), would we be throwing that program into a license violation?
Should we go ahead and update? Do we need to take any special precautions?