The one project cleared was a project containing obfuscated code, in violation of the PyPI Acceptable Use Policy.
Interesting, I didn’t know that. While I haven’t released anything obfuscated on PyPI, I’ve certainly written Python projects that include obfuscated code by necessity, namely scrapers packing duktape (embedded JS interpreter) and third party obfuscated JS blobs to generate signatures and stuff. I know for a fact there are projects like that on PyPI. I wonder if those are allowed.
(Come to think of it, those probably can be DMCAed if the targeted service provider is sufficiently motivated.)
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Interesting, I didn’t know that. While I haven’t released anything obfuscated on PyPI, I’ve certainly written Python projects that include obfuscated code by necessity, namely scrapers packing duktape (embedded JS interpreter) and third party obfuscated JS blobs to generate signatures and stuff. I know for a fact there are projects like that on PyPI. I wonder if those are allowed.
(Come to think of it, those probably can be DMCAed if the targeted service provider is sufficiently motivated.)
They also allow binary packages if you want an easy way of hiding malware.