[Distutils] license for setuptools

[Eric Dill]

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),
>
>
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> 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
> <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools> says it uses an MIT license but
> I cannot confirm this. On github, the file setup.py says the same thing.
>
>
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> License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
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> Could the maintainer please add an explicit license file.
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> I would really like to use matplotlib but will not get approval unless we
> can confirm the license.
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> Thank you.
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>
> --
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> Claude Marinier
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