On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Marinier, Claude <claude.marin...@lmco.com> wrote: >> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:45:20 +0000 >> From: Eric Dill <thediz...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [Distutils] license for setuptools >> >> Hi Claude, >> >> There was a recent discussion of the lack of a license file in setuptools >> here: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/612 and another important >> discussion here: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/132. This is >> probably the most relevant quotable bit from those two issues, from Jason >> Coombs (the primary developer of setuptools: >> >> "The [License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License] classifier isn't a suggestion >> but a >> declaration and follows the distutils guide for declaring a license. >> I consider inclusion of a license file redundant and error prone." >> >> Hopefully this resolves your issue about not having an explicit license file. > > Thank you Eric and the others. I will use this information for the request.
Claude, Setuptools now ships a LICENSE file. I'm not sure if there's a release available with it, but it's now in the SCM tree. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
