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[jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-572) Is an ASF project allowed to depend
on Python chardet (LGPL 2.1)
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Jarek Potiuk commented on LEGAL-572:
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Just for the information of everyone who were interested. The requests maintainers finally merged the change from [~ash]. This was after a long and bumpy road where we had done a lot of work and testing iterating with the creator of charset-normalizer to answer the concerns of the maintainers of requests but it seems that the next version of requests (soon) is going to have optional chardet dependency (by default it will use MIT charset_normalizer). I think that will solve vast majority of `chardet` usage cases.
Once requests new version is released I will identify all the Python projects of ASF using `requests` and will open issue to upgrade to the newer version.
More info here: [https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/5797|https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/5797#issuecomment-850186165]
> Is an ASF project allowed to depend on Python chardet (LGPL 2.1)
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>
> Key: LEGAL-572
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-572
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Sebb
> Priority: Major
>
> The Python module chardet is licensed under LGPL 2.1 [1].
> A project is licensed under AL 2.0 can have an optional dependency on it [2], but
> can it depend unconditionally on the module?
> I have been told that this is covered by the section [3], but this appears to contradict [2].
> [1] https://github.com/chardet/chardet
> [2] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional
> [3] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#prohibited
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