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Please add LICENSE to sdist tarball
This will help for distributions in packaging .
@mimi1vx Why would shipping a copy of the LGPL text in the sdist tarball help with packaging? In all distributions I've packaged for (Debian, Exherbo, FreeBSD, ...), the package simply needs to declare (within machine-readable metadata) what is the license.
The LGPL itself requires redistributed copies to be accompanied with a copy of the license, but:
- this is much better done by pointing at a common copy, e.g.
/usr/share/common-licences/LGPL-3.0
on Debian, than by shipping a million copies of that text; - the LGPL requires distributing its own text and the GPL text (which it refers to and amends), whereas
LICENSE
currently only contains the LGPL's text.