distutils deprecates 'license' distribution option

Gary D. Duzan gduzan at bbn.com
Thu May 15 12:32:38 EDT 2003


In article <ba0b9f$q2l$1 at news.hccnet.nl>,
Anton Vredegoor <anton at vredegoor.doge.nl> wrote:
>Distutils emits a warning for my setup script:
>
>$ python setup.py build
>/usr/local/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py:213: UserWarning: 'licence'
>distribution option is deprecated; use 'license'
>  warnings.warn(msg)

   This looks like a simple matter of US vs. UK spellings, or
'license' vs. 'licence', respectively. (Note the single character
change.)  I expect that replacing the 'c' with an 's' would eliminate
the warning.

					Gary Duzan
					BBN Technologies
					A Verizon Company






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