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Please add LICENSE to sdist tarball

Open mimi1vx opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

This will help for distributions in packaging .

mimi1vx avatar Mar 15 '19 19:03 mimi1vx

@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:

  1. 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;
  2. 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.

nbraud avatar Aug 30 '19 21:08 nbraud