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Well, I'd say no surprises here, because as most other Open Source software / infrastructure, Python is provided under a license that offers the software as-is and doesn't promise "warranty of fitness for any particular purpose". Technically the complaint here is against pip, but I guess they have similar terms and conditions.

On the other hand, you would have enjoyed a royalty-free, world-wide permission to use, distribute, and modify the code base at your will.

So I'd say, not a bad wager if you're willing to do the extra work of keeping your software up to date over time (which otherwise you'd have been paying someone to do, in case of a proprietary infrastructure).




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