Hi Python Software Foundation legal team,

It's come to the attention of members of the open source community
that pynose[1] is in violation of the LGPL and cannot be distributed.

https://github.com/mdmintz/pynose/issues/16
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2296426
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/325669

This package removes all git history, and specifies the creator of the
fork as the author instead. It also switches from the LGPL-2.1-only
license to the MIT license, which is problematic.

At least one significant contributor to the original nose project has
protested against this change; it is not just bystanders that are
worried about this blatant copyright violation.

We are continuing to work with the creator of the fork in an attempt
to remedy the situation, however it does not appear that we will come
to an agreement any time soon.

PyPI doesn't have the right to redistribute this software, and this
seems to be the appropriate mechanism under PEP-451 to make you
aware of the issue. Please remove pynose from the index and take any
necessary actions to prevent further distribution of this package.

Please let me know if there's another mechanism that should be used
to report issues like this, or if there is any other action that
I can take to officially notify the Python Software Foundation of
similar issues.

Regards,

Matt Jolly
Gentoo Linux Developer

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/pynose/