[Distutils] PEP-459 feedback from openSUSE packaging

[Sascha Peilicke]

On Tuesday 04 February 2014 15:42:45 Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 12:43:40PM +0100, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> > The 'license' metadata tag is causing the most issues for us. A perceived
> > 50% just put "GPL" in there. Which GPL version? GPL-only or actually
> > LGPL?.
> FWIW you can sometimes get more detailed information from the classifiers:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers
> 
> E.g.
> 
>   setup(...
>       licence='GPL',
>       classifiers=[
>           ...,
>           'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 or later
> (GPLv2+)', ...
>       ])
> 

True, that may help in manual review. But often classifiers aren't enough. 
Please see my more detailed reply elsewhere in this thread.
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Sascha Peilicke