[Distutils] license for setuptools

[Ian Cordasco]

Thanks for that Geoffrey. There's a PR to add it as Jason decided to
accept it. I think we can all relax now. Okay?

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffspear at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 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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