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Fixed #6287: documentation for the license field in distutils

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Tarek Ziadé 2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00:00
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@ -590,6 +590,8 @@ This information includes:
+----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
| ``platforms`` | a list of platforms | list of strings | |
+----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
| ``license`` | license for the package | short string | \(6) |
+----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
Notes:
@ -611,6 +613,13 @@ Notes:
The ``long_description`` field is used by PyPI when you are registering a
package, to build its home page.
(6)
The ``license`` field is a text indicating the license covering the
package where the license is not a selection from the "License" Trove
classifiers. See the ``Classifier`` field. Notice that
there's a ``licence`` distribution option which is deprecated but still
acts as an alias for ``license``.
'short string'
A single line of text, not more than 200 characters.

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@ -327,6 +327,8 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.