[Distutils] license for setuptools

[Marinier, Claude]

> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:45:20 +0000
> From: Eric Dill <thedizzle at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] license for setuptools
>
> 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.

Thank you Eric and the others. I will use this information for the request.

-- 
Claude Marinier