The Wheel implementation tries to put the license in LICENSE.txt inside .dist-info. I didn't feel the need to mention it in metadata.
Metadata parsing is extremely unimportant in prior versions of the spec. Correct me if a significant tool actually needs the file at all in v1.1, except for development eggs where only the version is read. I would like to remove environment marker support from useless fields like the trove classifiers. On Feb 17, 2013 2:39 PM, "Philippe Ombredanne" <pombreda...@nexb.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The latest draft of PEP 426 is up at > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/ > This is looking great! > > > License (optional) > > ------------------ > [...] > > The full text of the license would normally be included in a separate > > file. > > I know it is late in the game to do modifications but I often find > myself chasing down the actual full text of a license in a > distribution. > Would you be open to a new optional field that could point to the > license file(s) that may be present with the distribution? > > May be something along these lines: > > > License-File (multiple use) > ------------------ > > Optional file name or path to a file that contains the full text of the > license, notice, copyright or other terms of use that may > be included in a distribution such as a LICENSE or COPYING > file. A path must be a posix path using ``/`` forward slash as > path separator. A path or file name must be interpreted as > relative to the root directory of a distribution archive. > > Examples:: > > License-File: COPYING > License-File: COPYING.lib > > License-File: docs/legal/APACHE.txt > License-File: docs/legal/NOTICE.txt > > > -- > Philippe Ombredanne > > +1 650 799 0949 | pombreda...@nexb.com > DejaCode Enterprise at http://www.dejacode.com > nexB Inc. at http://www.nexb.com > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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