I have no idea if this is correct, they had the right to do so, etc, but sip v6.8.4 had announced this: ### Completion of the migration from Mercurial SIP is now licensed under the BSD-2-Clause license. `README.md` now reflects the state of the migration. The project has now been migrated from `setup.py` to `setuptools_scm` and `pyproject.toml`. Resolves [#1](https://github.com/Python-SIP/sip/issues/1)
README.md now has: ## License SIP is licensed under the BSD 2 clause license. SIP includes a copy of [ply](https://github.com/dabeaz/ply/) which is licensed under the BSD 3 clause license.
Hm, could've sworn I had already changed this one.. but I may be confusing with another package (they've been changing to BSD-2 for several packages like PyQt6-sip did)
wrt rights, it's probably ok because I don't think they were ever accepting contributions before they moved to github and the code is entirely theirs
(In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #3) > wrt rights, it's probably ok because I don't think they were ever accepting > contributions before they moved to github and the code is entirely theirs Well, non-trivial ones anyway -- they weren't keeping a repo public.
(In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #4) > (In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #3) > > wrt rights, it's probably ok because I don't think they were ever accepting > > contributions before they moved to github and the code is entirely theirs > Well, non-trivial ones anyway -- they weren't keeping a repo public. ... not to mention, that it was recently semi-rewritten from C to pure python, so a lot of the code was discarded.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fab61abe9484160bafaf246fcb527aaed0c5d2c4 commit fab61abe9484160bafaf246fcb527aaed0c5d2c4 Author: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-08-17 23:20:42 +0000 Commit: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-08-17 23:40:20 +0000 dev-python/sip: update licenses Like several other packages from the same upstream, this changed to BSD-2 after its introduction on github but I seem to have overlooked updating it for this one. Considering how development been semi-closed prior to github and how a lot of the sip code been rewritten recently, there is "probably" no issue with this change. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/938123 Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> dev-python/sip/{sip-6.8.6.ebuild => sip-6.8.6-r1.ebuild} | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
