Comment 1 for bug 1411149

Just a quick update:
I'm currently looking into this issue.

There are two and a half problems to solve:

* First and most important: Is Scour's Apache license (Version 2) compatible with Inkscape's GPL license (Version 2)? See also https://github.com/codedread/scour/issues/7 . In my opinion we should be fine though (see https://github.com/codedread/scour/issues/7#issuecomment-158662122). Does anybody feel differently (or is there some substantial historical information on this potential license incompatibility)?

* Secondly: The latest version of Scour (https://github.com/codedread/scour) was updated to also support Python 3, partially by using the compatibility module "six" (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six). We have to find a way to either a) include this module which might be difficult at this time or b) make Scour independent of "six" (sadly Scour's current maintainer Tobias Oberstein has declined my pull request for this, see https://github.com/codedread/scour/pull/12). Maybe we can include a local copy of the module in Inkscape?

* And the half problem: We have to check if the latest Scour still works with Python 2.6.5 (which we use on Windows). This is not much of a problem at all, though, since I'm determined to make the necessary adjustments myself, so basically we only have to resolve the other two problems.