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dsoprea / PyEasyArchive

A very intuitive and useful adapter to libarchive for universal archive access.
MIT License
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License file in pypi archive #28

Closed toddrme2178 closed 6 years ago

toddrme2178 commented 6 years ago

The pypi source archive isn't including the LICENSE file. Would it be possible to add it? It is very helpful when packaging this for Linux distributions. Thank you.

dsoprea commented 6 years ago

Is there any reason that you can't use the release-archives on the actual release-page on Github (https://github.com/dsoprea/PyEasyArchive/releases)? Those are the official distributables.

toddrme2178 commented 6 years ago

Although we can use the github releases, we have scripts that monitor pypi packages for updates, which is harder on github, so using pypi packages is better when they are available.

But overall, the python packaging guidelines say that pypi packages should have license files for legal reasons:

Every package should include a license file detailing the terms of distribution. In many jurisdictions, packages without an explicit license can not be legally used or distributed by anyone other than the copyright holder.

dsoprea commented 6 years ago

Thank you for sharing that. I wasn't aware.

I added it yesterday. I just wanted to understand.

Thank you.