[Contribution Request] Add License to `setup.cfg`

[kevinmatthes]

According to the contribution guidelines for contributions of type three (changes to the code base), I would like to discuss an enhancement I would like to introduce as a Pull Request.

Many Python 3 projects name their licenses in their setup.cfgs, see the references for examples. This project does not have such an entry in its setup.cfg. I would like to add it in a new Pull Request.

In addition, I would like to mention that there is a free and open source Python 3-CLI licensed MIT which would not only do this itself but would also automatically maintain the setup.cfg: setup-cfg-fmt, see the references. Running it over the setup.cfg would change more than only adding the version automatically, however, for instance, it would remove all comments. I mention it here just for completeness.

References

• Batchelder, N., McKee, K., Raj, A., & Serrão, R. G. (2022). Scriv (Version 0.17.0) [Computer software]. https://github.com/nedbat/scriv
• Sottile, A. & The setup-cfg-fmt Community. (2022). setup-cfg-fmt (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://github.com/asottile/setup-cfg-fmt
• Verkerk, C., & The bump2version Community. (2020). bump2version (Version 1.0.2-dev) [Computer software]. https://github.com/c4urself/bump2version

[jspaaks]

Thanks @kevinmatthes for this suggestion. I'd welcome a PR that adds the license and license_file keys in setup.cfg's [metadata], but I'd like to opt out of having more tools to help maintain setup.cfg for the moment.

[jspaaks]

Quick update on this, I am in the process of moving to a pyproject.toml based configuration, and as part of that I have included the license information both as a dedicated license key and as a classifier.

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[jspaaks]

Issues was fixed in PR #313, closing this issue