[Distutils] license for setuptools

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

Thanks for submitting this PR, Ian! :)

> On Aug 12, 2016, at 6:24 AM, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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