It seems that in our attempt to help Claude, both Glyph and I have
found: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/612

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Glyph <[email protected]> wrote:
> The OP specifically asked about setuptools, which is on-topic. In large 
> corporate environments it is standard to have a process that evaluates every 
> single dependency, so setuptools does end up in the bucket with matplotlib 
> since you need it to install.
>
>> On Aug 11, 2016, at 8:36 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there, this list is for the discussion of Python's core packaging tools 
>> like distutils. We have no control over the packages made or distributed 
>> with them. You would have to contact the matplotlib authors, not us.
>>
>> --Noah
>>
>>> On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Marinier, Claude <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good afternoon (well it’s afternoon here in the EDT zone),
>>>
>>> I am in the process of requesting the installation of Python 3 with 
>>> matplotlib. The company needs to approve licenses but I cannot find the 
>>> license for setuptools. The description here says it uses an MIT license 
>>> but I cannot confirm this. On github, the file setup.py says the same thing.
>>>
>>> License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
>>>
>>> Could the maintainer please add an explicit license file.
>>>
>>> I would really like to use matplotlib but will not get approval unless we 
>>> can confirm the license.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Claude Marinier
>>>
>>>
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