[Distutils] license for setuptools

[Chris Barker]

Sorry for the noise  -- I was way too late to this game -- blib in my
email, I guess.

-CHB


On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
wrote:

> it looks like the OP is looking for the license to setuptools, not
> matplotlib.
>
> (MPL's licence file is here: https://github.com/
> matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/LICENSE/LICENSE)
>
> but setuptools does not appear to have one:
>
> https://github.com/pypa/setuptools
>
> and it is a pypa package, so this is kind the right list for it -- though
> I"d post an issue on gitHub.
>
> BTW, I notice that the Python Packaging User Guide doesn't recommend a
> LICENSE file -- it probably should.
>
> NOTE to the OP: almost every python package depends on setuptools, so this
> really has nothing to do with Matplotlib :-)
>
> -CHB
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <noah at coderanger.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi there, this list is for the discussion of Python's core packaging
>> tools like distutils. We have no control over the packages made or
>> distributed with them. You would have to contact the matplotlib authors,
>> not us.
>>
>> --Noah
>>
>> > On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:51 AM, 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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