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Tarek Ziadé · Tarek Ziadé · commit 5e06a65639e2 · 2009-06-16T07:43:42.000Z
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r73441 | tarek.ziade | 2009-06-16 09:29:52 +0200 (Tue, 16 Jun 2009) | 1 line Fixed #6287: documentation for the license field in distutils ........
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
@@ -589,6 +589,8 @@ This information includes:
 +----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
 | ``platforms``        | a list of platforms       | list of strings |        |
 +----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
+| ``license``          | license for the package   | short string    | \(6)   |
++----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
 
 Notes:
 
@@ -610,6 +612,13 @@ 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.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -800,6 +800,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
+
 - Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
 
 - Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
