From 58ec6ede20d0b632f8325e1363aaa6e445ad61ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 04:22:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed the '--license' option so it's officially an alias for
 '--licence', and now actually works.

---
 Lib/distutils/dist.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index bedd9d252a3..a2092127784 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -233,13 +233,10 @@ class Distribution:
         self.commands = []
         parser = FancyGetopt (self.global_options + self.display_options)
         parser.set_negative_aliases (self.negative_opt)
+        parser.set_aliases ({'license': 'licence'})
         args = parser.getopt (object=self)
         option_order = parser.get_option_order()
 
-        # Handle aliases (license == licence)
-        if self.license:
-            self.licence = 1
-
         # for display options we return immediately
         if self.handle_display_options(option_order):
             return