| .. note:: | |
| Libcloud depends on the ``requests`` library for performing HTTP(s) requests. | |
| Prior to ``requests`` v2.26.0, ``requests`` depended on ``chardet`` library | |
| which is licensed under LGPL (requests library itself is licensed under the | |
| Apache License 2.0 license). | |
| Since Libcloud is not an application, but a library which is usually used | |
| along many other libraries in the same (virtual) environment, we can't have | |
| a strict dependency on requests >= 2.26.0 since that would break a lot of | |
| installations where users already depend on and have an older version of | |
| requests installed. | |
| If you are using requests < 2.26.0 along the Libcloud library you are using | |
| version of chardet library (chardet is a direct dependency of the requests | |
| library) which license is not compatible with Apache Libcloud. | |
| If using a LGPL dependency is a problem for your application, you should | |
| ensure you are using requests >= 2.26.0. | |
| It's also worth noting that Apache Libcloud doesn't bundle any 3rd party | |
| dependencies with our release artifacts - we only provide source code | |
| artifacts on our website. | |
| When installing Libcloud from PyPi using pip, pip will also download and use | |
| the latest version of requests without the problematic chardet dependency, | |
| unless you already have older version of the requests library installed in | |
| the same environment where you also want to use Libcloud - in that case, | |
| Libcloud will use the dependency which is already available and installed. |