Thanks for that Geoffrey. There's a PR to add it as Jason decided to accept it. I think we can all relax now. Okay?
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
