licensing

[amueller]

Hey. Would you be willing to change the licensing on this library to BSD or MIT? I think there is a place for a good deprecation library in Python, and so I'd like to contribute to this and add some more functionality. However, if it is GPL licensed, it can't be used in any of the projects I'm working on (in the scipy / scikit space).

Related, I would like to add the following features:

• removing a function
• removing a class
• removing an attribute
• removing a method
• renaming a parameter
• changing the default value of a parameter
• changing a parameter option ("behavior X was called x, now it's called y").
• renaming a function
• renaming a class
• renaming a method
• renaming an attribute
• moving a class
• moving a function
• moving a module
• having deprecation version and removal version in all deprecations [I'm probably forgetting some]

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Its mpl2 now

[amueller]

That looks like it is still not really compatible with the general principles in the scipy ecosystem. Any copy-left means that companies will generally not touch it. Having copy-left dependencies would disqualify the packages that I'm working on from broader use.

[amueller]

Well, I guess it depends on whether any code is copied. But I would rather not prevent people from copying code from this library to their library if they choose so.

[AndreaCrotti]

@amueller just today I published a similar library (didn't actually found this one earlier to be honest even if I would have done it anyway).

it's here https://github.com/AndreaCrotti/depr and on PyPi already https://pypi.python.org/pypi/depr, happy to add a lot some more features as well