Previously you wrote: > Here is the discussion referred to: https://discuss.python.org/t/what-is-install-paths-to-in-wheel-file/42005
This illustrates you had no idea what the discussion was about and now you write: > Oh trust me, I saw the discussion previously. Both cannot be true at the same time, unless you had some kind of very brief memory loss. > I'm not a lawyer, Neither am I. All I have to work with is my understanding of the English language. Here's how I come to my conclusions. The Python license grants all intellectual rights to Python to PSF (an American NGO, a.k.a. 501(c) organization), which, essentially, can be characterized as an organization for public good. This is what it has to say about itself in its mission statement: > Mission > The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, > and advance the Python programming language, and to support and > facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python > programmers. it also elaborates what it means by "diverse" as follows: > Diversity > The Python Software Foundation and the global Python community > welcome and encourage participation by everyone. Our community > is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we > are working to help each other live up to these principles. We want > our community to be more diverse: whoever you are, and whatever > your background, we welcome you. My understanding is that "welcome and encourage participation by everyone" is in stark contradiction to banning someone disagreeing with you. Note, I haven't offended anyone. I haven't even spoken to anyone who found themselves being offended. All I did was to describe in some detail the reasons why some projects endorsed by PyPA are a bad idea. You, as well as anyone else, are welcome to believe differently. This is the whole point of diversity allegedly promoted by PSF. I will think you are wrong, but it's not my place to shut you up. Neither is it the place of people in charge of the public discussion of Python or its satellite projects. They are not there to decide who's right and who gets the stage. Their role is to preserve the public good, which any discussion about subjects relevant to Python would be. What happens, however, and this is the unfortunate fate of popular projects, is that a small group of people consolidate all means of control in their hands, and the more control they get, the easier it is to get even more of it. The natural factor that would prevent this from happening: the community dissatisfaction with their role becomes increasingly less powerful as soon as more and more members of the community come to depend on the good provided by the community. If this discuss.python.org is representative of the Python community as a whole, then, unfortunately, it means that the goals PSF set for it are fading into the distance, rather than becoming more attainable. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
