LGPL license restriction in azureml-core phyton library

Mehmet BAŞERDEM 41 Reputation points
2020-09-08T09:29:33.747+00:00

Hello all,

We are using azureml-core phyton library to interact with Azure Machine Learning Workspace. The library is hosted on https://pypi.org/project/azureml-core--> https://pypi.org/project/azureml-core/ It is authored by Microsoft and maintained by pypi community members.

One of the dependencies of azureml-core is "chardet" phyton library and it has LGPL license restriction. https://pypi.org/project/chardet/ --> chardet

Our compliance team would like us to avoid the use of LGPL licensed open source libraries to avoid future license implications. I am wondering if there is an alternative to azureml-core phyton library? I noticed that there are two GitHub initiatives to replace chardet . Please refer to below links:

https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/4848

https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/1018

I am wondering whether Microsoft is planning to taken an action on the replacement of chardet library and avoid LGPL licensing issues.

Thanks in advance

Mehmet Baserdem

Azure Machine Learning
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  1. GiftA-MSFT 11,166 Reputation points
    2020-09-09T21:49:52.623+00:00

    Hi, thanks for reaching out. At the moment, there isn't any public information available regarding the replacement of chardet library. I suggest raising a feature request so you and others can upvote to help the product team prioritize this request. Hope this helps. Thanks.

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