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Adoption analysis of Python Wheels: https://pythonwheels.com/
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Encourage people to use license_file feature of wheel packages #95

Closed jdufresne closed 7 years ago

jdufresne commented 7 years ago

From the wheel documentation

Several open source licenses require the license text to be included in every distributable artifact of the project. Currently, the only way to to do this with “wheel” is to specify the license_file key in the [metadata] section of the project’s setup.cfg:

I think pythonwheels.com should encourage people to use this feature when adding a wheel to their project for the first time. I've noticed most packages don't include this.

It would be useful to be able to use pythonwheels.com as a source of best practices when fixing this in projects.