[Pcsclite-muscle] PySCard: unofficial version 1.6.16 available

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 11:18 +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> > The page http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/223972
> > is from September 2003 so the PSF license should be one that is
> > compatible with GPL (according to the history at
> > http://docs.python.org/license.html)
> >
> > I agree that a full license term with an exact license version would be better.
> >
> >> 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
> >
> > I guess I should try to contact Bruce Eckel and Robert Brewer and ask
> > for clarification about the license.
> 
> I could not find Robert Brewer email. His posts are 10 years old :-(
> I could not find clearly versionned "PSF license".
> What information is missing so that Fedora can accept the software?

I believe that we can assume that the PSF license is from the time of
publication (as we cannot contact the author would it make sense to
write the publication date in the comments?). I'll try to revive the
package. Thank you.

Nikos