[Distutils] license for setuptools

[Geoffrey Spear]

It seems a bit silly to claim that a license that contains the sentence
"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software" shouldn't have a copy
included with the software it applies to since it literally says you need
it.

(IANAL)

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Eric Dill <thedizzle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Claude,
>
> There was a recent discussion of the lack of a license file in setuptools
> here: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/612 and another important
> discussion here: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/132.  This is
> probably the most relevant quotable bit from those two issues, from Jason
> Coombs (the primary developer of setuptools:
>
> "The [License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License] classifier isn't a
> suggestion but a declaration and follows the distutils guide for declaring
> a license. I consider inclusion of a license file redundant and error
> prone."
>
> Hopefully this resolves your issue about not having an explicit license
> file.
>
> Best,
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:20 PM Marinier, Claude <
> claude.marinier at lmco.com> wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon (well it’s afternoon here in the EDT zone),
>>
>>
>>
>> I am in the process of requesting the installation of Python 3 with
>> matplotlib. The company needs to approve licenses but I cannot find the
>> license for setuptools. The description here
>> <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools> says it uses an MIT license
>> but I cannot confirm this. On github, the file setup.py says the same thing.
>>
>>
>>
>> License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
>>
>>
>>
>> Could the maintainer please add an explicit license file.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would really like to use matplotlib but will not get approval unless we
>> can confirm the license.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Claude Marinier
>>
>>
>>
>>
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