[Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

[Philippe Ombredanne]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> The latest draft of PEP 426 is up at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/
This is looking great!

> License (optional)
> ------------------
[...]
> The full text of the license would normally be included in a separate
> file.

I know it is late in the game to do modifications but I often find
myself chasing down the actual full text of a license in a
distribution.
Would you be open to a new optional field that could point to the
license file(s) that may be present with the distribution?

May be something along these lines:


License-File (multiple use)
------------------

Optional file name or path to a file that contains the full text of the
license, notice, copyright or other terms of use  that may
be included in a distribution such as a LICENSE or COPYING
file.  A path must be a posix path using ``/`` forward slash as
path separator.  A path or file name must be interpreted as
relative to the root directory of a distribution archive.

Examples::

    License-File: COPYING
    License-File: COPYING.lib

    License-File: docs/legal/APACHE.txt
    License-File: docs/legal/NOTICE.txt


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