<div dir="ltr">Might be wandering away from simply tacking on a license, but some related legalese: Is there some canned contributor license agreement (CLA) that could also be applied to make clear that contributors must license their contributions to the project(s) in kind? Python has it's own (<a href="https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/">https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/</a>) but that seems very formal. Is there a simpler one that just makes it implicit that 'submitting a patch/PR = you agree to license that code to the project for redistribution" or whatever.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glyph@twistedmatrix.com" target="_blank">glyph@twistedmatrix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for submitting this PR, Ian! :)<br>
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> On Aug 12, 2016, at 6:24 AM, Ian Cordasco <<a href="mailto:graffatcolmingov@gmail.com">graffatcolmingov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Thanks for that Geoffrey. There's a PR to add it as Jason decided to<br>
> accept it. I think we can all relax now. Okay?<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Geoffrey Spear <<a href="mailto:geoffspear@gmail.com">geoffspear@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> It seems a bit silly to claim that a license that contains the sentence "The<br>
>> above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all<br>
>> copies or substantial portions of the Software" shouldn't have a copy<br>
>> included with the software it applies to since it literally says you need<br>
>> it.<br>
>><br>
>> (IANAL)<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Eric Dill <<a href="mailto:thedizzle@gmail.com">thedizzle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi Claude,<br>
>>><br>
>>> There was a recent discussion of the lack of a license file in setuptools<br>
>>> here: <a href="https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/612" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/pypa/<wbr>setuptools/issues/612</a> and another important<br>
>>> discussion here: <a href="https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/132" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/pypa/<wbr>setuptools/issues/132</a>. This is<br>
>>> probably the most relevant quotable bit from those two issues, from Jason<br>
>>> Coombs (the primary developer of setuptools:<br>
>>><br>
>>> "The [License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License] classifier isn't a<br>
>>> suggestion but a declaration and follows the distutils guide for declaring a<br>
>>> license. I consider inclusion of a license file redundant and error prone."<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hopefully this resolves your issue about not having an explicit license<br>
>>> file.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Best,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Eric<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:20 PM Marinier, Claude<br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:claude.marinier@lmco.com">claude.marinier@lmco.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Good afternoon (well it’s afternoon here in the EDT zone),<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I am in the process of requesting the installation of Python 3 with<br>
>>>> matplotlib. The company needs to approve licenses but I cannot find the<br>
>>>> license for setuptools. The description here says it uses an MIT license but<br>
>>>> I cannot confirm this. On github, the file setup.py says the same thing.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Could the maintainer please add an explicit license file.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I would really like to use matplotlib but will not get approval unless we<br>
>>>> can confirm the license.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Thank you.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> --<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Claude Marinier<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
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