Outdated Gist reference and thus unclear copyright

[stefan6419846]

In

packaging/src/packaging/_elffile.py

Line 7 in d0d5ad8

Based on: https://gist.github.com/lyssdod/f51579ae8d93c8657a5564aefc2ffbca

the code references https://gist.github.com/lyssdod/f51579ae8d93c8657a5564aefc2ffbca, which is no longer available. Given the invalid link, it is unclear who to attribute for the external original code and whether further copyright notices have to be considered. For now, I have not been able to find an archived copy of this as well.

The relevant change has been introduced in 2021 (version 21.0) by commit c32c969

It would be great to clarify the situation about the original source and thus get rid of any doubts.

[brettcannon]

There's a chance @uranusjr remembers, but the person deleted their GitHub account.

[uranusjr]

If I remember correctly, the original gist did not have an explicit license. The code also got a pretty significant rewrite when we merged musl and manylinux detection, so at this point I’d say it falls under fair use. IANAL.

[stefan6419846]

Thanks for the comments. Given the rewrite and the dead link, it seems like the easiest way to deal with this here is to just remove it?

[brettcannon]

Given the rewrite and the dead link, it seems like the easiest way to deal with this here is to just remove it?

Yep! @stefan6419846 did you want to make a PR?