Thanks for submitting this PR, Ian! :) > On Aug 12, 2016, at 6:24 AM, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
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