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License is being installed to `/usr/LICENSE`

See original GitHub issue

python setup.py build
python setup.py install --optimize=1 --skip-build

This generates a LICENSE file in /usr which is super weird.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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mottossocommented, Nov 1, 2021

Done, thanks.

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CAM-Gerlachcommented, Nov 1, 2021

Just FYI, including LICENSE in data_files is likely the issue, or at the very least an issue; data_files is a a long deprecated, discouraged and unsafe way of distributing files outside the package tree that will eventually be fully removed, whereas the license_files, license_file and MANIFEST.in (in that order) are all much more appropriate solutions, never mind that reasonably modern packaging tools (thanks to a feature I helped add) will include LICENSE as a license_file automatically. So I suggest simply eliding the data_files line, as there’s no need for it anymore and it can only cause problems.

(I’m one of the maintainers of QtPy, BTW 😃