pypa / pypa/setuptools

[Docs] Missing external copyright notices for code copies

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Description

Summary

When looking through the code, there seem to be some code copies with incomplete original copyright information:

Further references in the vendored dependencies:

While I am aware that the vendored dependencies might need external changes, they are - AFAIK - all maintained by Jason, as for setuptools as well. To keep discussions about this in one place, I refrained from opening dedicated issues in each repository for now.

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Additional Information

It simplifies license compliance handling. At the moment, such references have to be researched and resolved manually, while fixing this upstream would benefit all users.

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Research direction

Read the listed files under setuptools/_distutils, setuptools/_itertools.py, and setuptools/_vendor, then compare each referenced dependency with its linked upstream license and copyright information. Account for the vendored importlib_metadata and zipp copies, and consider whether upstream changes are needed; done means the relevant copied-code notices are complete and license compliance no longer requires manual research.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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