Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> The project I am working on now needs to include license files for all of the 3rd party
> code that it includes. Since license files are not included in distribution packages, the
> process for doing this is exceedingly complex, error prone, and in some cases, impossible.
> The build process builds URLs to license files in package source code repositories based
> on version number, but this is dependent upon several things…
>
> The source code repository is accessible via the Internet and still exists.
> There is a tag for each version (not always true).
> Tags follow a consistent naming pattern with respect to version numbers (not always
> true).
>
> I believe that it makes sense to provide a standard means for distribution packages to
> include license files and then encourage package authors to use it.

This would be similar to `{ "license" : "SEE LICENSE IN <filename>" }` in an npm package. See also https://www.npmjs.com/package/license-extractor .
--
Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org
To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-leave@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/
Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/CSS5L2D3U7WNK2TOOLFIPE5X62WS7TO6/