[Pcsclite-muscle] PySCard: unofficial version 1.6.16 available

[Ludovic Rousseau]

2014-07-30 15:56 GMT+02:00 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com>:
> On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 15:35 +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I now provide a snapshot version of PySCard myself at [1]. PySCard is
>> a Python wrapper for PC/SC.
>> See [2] for more details.
>
> Hello Ludovic,
>  Thank you for doing that. Just to let you know that what is preventing
> this package from being included in Fedora is the unclear license of
> some components. From [0], I think the most serious is:
> smartcard/Observer.py
> smartcard/Synchronization.py
>   taken from http://mindview.net/Books/TIPython; I didn't see a license
>   at first glance.
>
> However also:
> smartcard/ClassLoader.py
>   taken from the Python Cookbook.  The provided URL indicates the "psf"
>   license which I believe we call "Python", but I'm not certain.
>
> may be relevant, as the PSF license can make PySCard GPL-incompatible
> ( https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PythonOld ).
>
> [0]. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663102

Thanks.
I opened a bug upstream https://sourceforge.net/p/pyscard/bugs/18/

I will try to see what I can do to solve the issue.

Bye,

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau