[New-bugs-announce] [issue39790] LICENSE.TXT file does not contain all incorporated software

[Steve Dower]

New submission from Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org>:

Looking at https://docs.python.org/3/license.html there's a list of "incorporated software" licenses, most of which say you need to distribute the license.

Right now, the LICENSE.txt file we distribute on Windows (made from the /LICENSE and PC/crtlicense.txt files in the repo, plus those in the source dependencies) does not include any of these licenses that come from C source files.

Arguably, we should just include all of them in a central file somewhere in the repo, even though there'd be some duplication.

(I have no idea whether other distros correctly gather it all together.)

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components: Windows
messages: 362937
nosy: brett.cannon, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: LICENSE.TXT file does not contain all incorporated software
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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