licensing issues: we need a clean restart here - remove everything

Problem: argparse has been licensed under Apache License v2.0

While this license is a FOSS license, it has known compatibility issues
with the GNU GPL v2 - projects under GPL v2 can't use code under apache
license v2.0.
Projects which use "GPL v2 (or, at user's choice, any later version)" only
have one means using code under apache license v2.0: to choose the "or any
later" part and go GPL v3. Of course, this would cause issues with other
license....

As argparse was contributed to the Python v2.7 code base, it is available
under the Python License, which has no such compatibility issue.

Thus, a clean solution for the argparse package (for users who need argparse
for projects which have to support python older than 2.7) is to remove all
old apache licensed files and start from scratch using the python-licensed
code from the standard library.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
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-What's New in argparse 1.1
-==========================
-
-- Issue #22: Support more customization of version arguments.
-- Issue #34: Allow better custom type error messages using ArgumentTypeError.
-- Issue #36: Get "from argparse import *" working.
-- Issue #37: Stop treating two character alphanumeric flags as numbers.
-- Issue #38: Better error messages when 'dest' occurs twice for positional arguments.
-- Issue #39: Better error messages for invalid actions.
-- Issue #43: Deprecate ArgumentParser(..., version=XXX, ...) and friends.
-- Issue #46: Allow single character options, e.g. '-' and '+'.
-- Issue #51: Better error messages for errors like type='int'.
-- Namespace objects now support "in" (i.e. __contains__).
-- Usage and help (but not version) messages are written to stdout, not stderr.
-
-
-What's New in argparse 1.0.1
-============================
-
-- Issue #21: Stop rejecting classic classes as type= arguments.
-- Issue #24: Improve error messages when nargs=0 for store and append actions.
-- Issue #25 and #17: Silence Python 2.6 buggy Exception.message warnings.
-- Issue #27: Stop dropping mutually exclusive groups from parents= arguments.
-- Issue #28: Set svn:eol-style=native properly for text files.
-- Wrap long prog= values properly.
-- Make sure literal % can be used in help messages.
-- Add a NEWS file.