licensing

Conda environment: Print licenses of installed packages

Conda environment: Print licenses of installed packages Question: is there an easy way to print the license of each package in a conda environment? conda list nicely lists all packages, however there is no option to get information about the license. On Anaconda the license is shown. I tried to find the licenses in each …

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Can pip (or setuptools, distribute etc…) list the license used by each installed package?

Can pip (or setuptools, distribute etc…) list the license used by each installed package? Question: I’m trying to audit a Python project with a large number of dependencies and while I can manually look up each project’s homepage/license terms, it seems like most OSS packages should already contain the license name and version in their …

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Question on importing a GPL'ed Python library in commercial code

Question on importing a GPL'ed Python library in commercial code Question: We’re evaluating a couple of Python libraries for Graph manipulation. We tried ‘networkx’ (http://networkx.lanl.gov/) and ‘igraph’ (http://igraph.sourceforge.net/). While both are excellent modules, igraph is faster due to its nature – it’s a Python wrapper over libigraph – a blistering fast graph C library (uses …

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How do I protect Python code from being read by users?

How do I protect Python code from being read by users? Question: I am developing a piece of software in Python that will be distributed to my employer’s customers. My employer wants to limit the usage of the software with a time-restricted license file. If we distribute the .py files or even .pyc files it …

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