Possibility of change in License info on pypi from "Other/Proprietary License (CC-BY License)" to more explicit Creative Commons Intl ?

[pnsvk]

This is blocking us from installing multiple other packages which have colorcet as dependency.. eg: Holoviews, Datashader, etc.

[pnsvk]

Would be of great help, as this is blocking our installations in our Org.

[jbednar]

As listed in https://github.com/holoviz/colorcet/blob/master/LICENSE.txt, this project is governed by the "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY)". The setup.py file contains:

    license='CC-BY License',
    classifiers=[
        "License :: Other/Proprietary License",
        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
        "Programming Language :: Python",
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7",
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
        "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
    ],

And https://pypi.org/project/colorcet/ lists the license as "License: Other/Proprietary License (CC-BY License)". I assume you're asking for "Other/Proprietary License" to be replaced with something like "License :: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License" and to have a new release? We can do that, but I would think the license field is explicit enough already.

[pnsvk]

Thank you for your response.. Yeah.. Our internal org tooling was discarding the package procurement due to the phrases "Other / Proprietary" part of it.. Can you please let me know if it can be made more explicit that it indeed is CC alone, in its intent..

[jbednar]

Fixed, but won't update on PyPi until the next release. Shouldn't be too long until a new release, as there are new colormaps available upstream and we'll want to get those in.

[jbednar]

Release 2.0.3 is building at https://travis-ci.org/github/holoviz/colorcet/jobs/755017496, and if it succeeds I think the metadata should update at PyPi.

[pnsvk]

While your commit looks clean, can you please kindly help check where the Meta information is getting populated from on PyPI ?

[jbednar]

Turns out that PyPi only accepts a limited set of classifiers, so I had to update it separately to use License : OSI Approved in the classifiers, with the actual license specified in license.

[pnsvk]

Thank you for all the responses and the merge.. Will work on it with my internal (Org.) contacts to see if they could do something about it. Thank you once again.

[jbednar]

Do something about what? Is "License: OSI Approved" not already ok?