It seems a bit silly to claim that a license that contains the sentence "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software" shouldn't have a copy included with the software it applies to since it literally says you need it.
(IANAL) On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Eric Dill <thediz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.marin...@lmco.com> wrote: > >> Good afternoon (well it’s afternoon here in the EDT zone), >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License >> >> >> >> Could the maintainer please add an explicit license file. >> >> >> >> I would really like to use matplotlib but will not get approval unless we >> can confirm the license. >> >> >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Claude Marinier >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >> > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > >
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