On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 4:06 AM, Kryptxy via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > Hello, > I have built a command-line torrent fetching tool. The tool fetches torrents > from thepiratebay proxy sites, and display results in console. Its written in > python3, and is completely open-source. > > Project link - https://github.com/kryptxy/torrench > (You may give it a try :p) > > Question: (a) Can I publish such tool on pypi? > (b) Also, should I publish it on pypi? > > I ask (b) as the packages I used from pypi (pip) were more like utility > packages. They helped me in building my project. My project, on the other end > is a full-fledged tool. So should I publish it on pypi? >
Yes, absolutely. There's nothing wrong with tools being on PyPI; for instance, youtube-dl is available there. > I ask (a) because the tool scraps TPB proxies, which aren't legal per se. So > if I package and publish this tool, will it be accepted? Personally, I'd go ahead and publish it. Torrenting is not illegal any more than photocopying is; it's what you do with it that can be illegal. (Unless the proxies themselves are violating TPB's TOS or something - is that what you mean?) As long as your code isn't ITSELF doing anything illegal, it should be fine. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
