<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I would like to remove environment marker support from useless fields like the trove classifiers.<br>
</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 17, 2013 2:39 PM, "Philippe Ombredanne" <<a href="mailto:pombredanne@nexb.com">pombredanne@nexb.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Nick Coghlan <<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The latest draft of PEP 426 is up at <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/" target="_blank">http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/</a><br>
This is looking great!<br>
<br>
> License (optional)<br>
> ------------------<br>
[...]<br>
> The full text of the license would normally be included in a separate<br>
> file.<br>
<br>
I know it is late in the game to do modifications but I often find<br>
myself chasing down the actual full text of a license in a<br>
distribution.<br>
Would you be open to a new optional field that could point to the<br>
license file(s) that may be present with the distribution?<br>
<br>
May be something along these lines:<br>
<br>
<br>
License-File (multiple use)<br>
------------------<br>
<br>
Optional file name or path to a file that contains the full text of the<br>
license, notice, copyright or other terms of use that may<br>
be included in a distribution such as a LICENSE or COPYING<br>
file. A path must be a posix path using ``/`` forward slash as<br>
path separator. A path or file name must be interpreted as<br>
relative to the root directory of a distribution archive.<br>
<br>
Examples::<br>
<br>
License-File: COPYING<br>
License-File: COPYING.lib<br>
<br>
License-File: docs/legal/APACHE.txt<br>
License-File: docs/legal/NOTICE.txt<br>
<br>
<br>
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