func_timeout is 5 years unmaintained and has several licensing issues. With this, downstream projects utilizing FlareSolverr are unable to be packaged for distribution outside of certain generalized repositories such as PyPI. For instance, this project would be difficult to package for any Enterprise Linux distributions such as Fedora or CentOS. Debian-related distributions are expected to have similar problems.

This dependency appears to only be called once, so it would theoretically be easy to swap out, given a proper understanding of the affected parts. Alternatively, a built-in function and exception rather than an entire library for just the one use.