4 This is the pyxattr module, a Python extension module which gives access
5 to the extended attributes for filesystem objects available in some
8 Downloads: go to http://pyxattr.k1024.org/downloads/. Latest
9 version is 0.5.6. The source repository is either at
10 http://git.k1024.org/pyxattr.git or at
11 https://github.com/iustin/pyxattr.
16 pyxattr has been written and tested on Linux, kernel v2.4 or later, with
17 XFS filesystems; ext2/ext3 should work also. If any other platform
18 implements the same behavior, pyxattr could be used.
20 You need to have the attr library (including development headers; most
21 distributions should have this, under various names) and setuptools
22 installed in order to build and install the module.
27 pyxattr is Copyright 2002-2008, 2012-2015 Iustin Pop.
29 pyxattr is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
30 terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
31 Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any
32 later version. See the COPYING file for the full license terms.
34 Note that previous versions had different licenses: version 0.3 was licensed
35 under LGPL version 3 (which, I realized later, is not compatible with GPLv2,
36 hence the change to LGPL 2.1), and even older versions were licensed under GPL