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  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
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Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst

@@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ This information includes:
 +----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
 | ``platforms``        | a list of platforms       | list of strings |        |
 +----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
+| ``license``          | license for the package   | short string    | \(6)   |
++----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
 
 Notes:
 
@@ -582,6 +584,13 @@ Notes:
    versions prior to 2.2.3 or 2.3.  The list is available from the `PyPI website
    <http://pypi.python.org/pypi>`_.
 
+(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.
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -242,6 +242,8 @@ 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 `$$`