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The LICENSE file for python-ldap states that "The python-ldap package is distributed under Python-style license". This is unhelpfully ambiguous, and leaves a conscientious developer unable to use your software.
What is "Python-style license"? Is it one of the 8 different licenses under which Python itself has been distributed? Or one of the myriad other licenses under which other Python libraries have been distributed? If so: which one?
Why a "Python-style" license, not just "Python"? Does that mean there are some changes to the Python license that you have not revealed? Or just that your license is also written in legal style?
This is an issue for me because, in the day-job, I am auditting a body of commercial sources to ensure it complies with the OSS license terms. I shall be insisting they remove python-ldap completely, because they cannot know what to comply with.
After work, I'll be working on OSS too. And then I can't use python-ldap in any GPL-licensed project because I don't know which version of the Python license it is based on - 5 of them are GPL-compatible and 3 are not