This is all minor stuff: unreachable debug code (that should be commented-out
instead of in an 'if False:' block), unnecessary 'pass' and 'global'
statements, redundantly-initialized variables. No behavior changes. Nothing
here was actually broken, it just looked suspicious to the static analysis at
https://lgtm.com/projects/g/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/alerts/?mode=list .
Whenever Free Software/Open Source legal folks are examining the Tahoe-LAFS source code, it seems like there has to be a discussion and documentation about every single licensing declaration. Since this one is (was) permissive, then you would think it could be avoided, but I'm not betting on it. We would probably have to install a copy of the MIT licence into every one of the "copyright" files under the debian/ subdirectory, for example. So: let's just let hashbasedsig.py be licensed the same way as the rest of Tahoe-LAFS.
