the license is not a selection from the “License” Trove classifiers
to specify a particular version of a license which is named via the Classifier field
to indicate a variation or exception to such a license
This PR removes the explicit license parameter since the usage for this project does not fit any of those cases and it makes it more difficult to use tools like pip-licenses since it is not consistent with other projects that just have License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License as one of their trove classifiers.
Please note that this does not change the license of the project in any way, and since this project already has a License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License trove classifier the license parameter is redundant.
The Python packaging specifications indicate that the
license
parameter tosetup()
should be used in one of the following cases:Classifier
fieldThis PR removes the explicit
license
parameter since the usage for this project does not fit any of those cases and it makes it more difficult to use tools like pip-licenses since it is not consistent with other projects that just haveLicense :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
as one of their trove classifiers.Please note that this does not change the license of the project in any way, and since this project already has a
License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
trove classifier thelicense
parameter is redundant.