Autor: GI Jack Datum: To: mat-dev Betreff: Re: [mat-dev] [Tails-dev] What is the status and license of MAT?
There is always tauthon which should handle legacy python2 when that gets dropped:
https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 11:31 PM
> From: jvoisin <julien.voisin@???>
> To: mat-dev@???, "Chris Marusich" <cmmarusich@???>
> Subject: Re: [mat-dev] [Tails-dev] What is the status and license of MAT?
>
> Hello Chris,
>
> >> Chris Marusich:
> >>> I've noticed that this release's LICENSE file contains the text of
> >>> version 2 of the GNU GPL. However, it isn't clear if the software
> >>> is available under "just the GPLv2", or "the GPLv2 or any later
> >>> version". Can you clarify which of these is the intended
> >>> interpretation?
> >
> > README.md seems to suggest it's GPL v2 only. That's how I've
> > interpreted it for the Debian packaging.
>
> This is how it's meant to be interpreted. I can always change the
> wording if it's bothering you.
>
> >>> Do you
> >>> still believe that users should avoid using it, and if so, why?
> >
> > Personally, I think that users who need it should use it as AFAIK
> > there's nothing better around there anyway.
>
> I'm currently writing MAT2 (https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2), so you can
> either:
>
> - Package MAT, knowing that it's not actively maintained anymore, that
> it doesn't run on Python3 (Python2 won't be supported in two years:
> https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/), and has some known
> limitations (like leaving metadata in file embedded in PDF, like
> images). But it's working™, and comes with a GUI.
>
> - Wait until I polish MAT2 a bit more, decide if I want to write a GUI
> or only file-manager extensions, write them, and publish an alpha, then
> a beta, then a stable.
>
> I guess that intrigeri is right: you should go with MAT, and once MAT2
> is stable, switch to it if you want.
>
> Thank you for your interest in packaging MAT ♥
>
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