[Distutils] license for setuptools

[Nick Timkovich]

Might be wandering away from simply tacking on a license, but some related
legalese: Is there some canned contributor license agreement (CLA) that
could also be applied to make clear that contributors must license their
contributions to the project(s) in kind? Python has it's own (
https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/) but that seems very formal. Is there a
simpler one that just makes it implicit that 'submitting a patch/PR = you
agree to license that code to the project for redistribution" or whatever.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com>
wrote:

> 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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