[Numpy-discussion] Inclusion of licenses

[Charles R Harris]

Hi All,

Currently we append appropriate platform  licenses to the LICENSE.txt file
when building wheels for release. This means that there are
uncommitted changes which shows up in the versioneer version as 'dirty',
see the nightly files. This is unfortunate, but accurate :) There are at
least two possible solutions to this problem.

   1. Patch versioneer to omit the dirty string, very easy to do.
   2. Put the platform specific file in the repo or combine them in the
   LICENSE file.

I don't recall why we did things the way we do, but there was a discussion.
Patching is easy, but the second option seems preferable. In particular,
folks who now build their own NumPy wheels aren't going to have the license
files.

Chuck
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