I promised myself that I wouldn't return to this, but the maintainer of #PyNose while "leading a busy life" found time to grace us with a "post-mortem" to the "license confusion". Do I have to point out that it just keeps adding insult to injury?

Some interesting things we learn:

• we "mainly came from Reddit and 4Chan."
• "Certainly looks legal if Microsoft can do it."
• or maybe not… "even big companies can get licensing wrong sometimes."
• …and in general, past actions of Microsoft justify everything.
• he's the hero "who fixes unmaintained Python packages that businesses still depend on", while we're all the villains.

In the end, the biggest issue remains. The guy's so full of himself that he still didn't realize that license wasn't the real problem. The problem was that he was a complete asshole about it, and this "post-mortem" proves that he still is completely incapable of self-reflection.

• […] "pynose will continue to be shipped with Linux distributions around the world."

I wonder why would we want to do that, given that he already banned people participating in the original thread from reporting bugs.

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