(re)fetch the license files from wxWidgets when building the sdist,

and ensure it is included in the distribution.

MANIFEST.in

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #
 
 recursive-include   wx  **
+recursive-include   license  *.txt
 
 recursive-exclude   wx  .git
 recursive-exclude   wx  *.pyc

build.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # Author:      Robin Dunn
 #
 # Created:     3-Dec-2010
-# Copyright:   (c) 2010-2016 by Total Control Software
+# Copyright:   (c) 2010-2017 by Total Control Software
 # License:     wxWindows License
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ from buildtools.config  import Config, msg, opj, posixjoin, loadETG, etg2sip, fi
                                phoenixDir, wxDir, copyIfNewer, copyFile, \
                                macSetLoaderNames, \
                                getVcsRev, runcmd, textfile_open, getSipFiles, \
-                               getVisCVersion, getToolsPlatformName
+                               getVisCVersion, getToolsPlatformName, updateLicenseFiles
 
 import buildtools.version as version
 
@@ -1754,6 +1754,10 @@ def cmd_sdist(options, args):
         for name in glob.glob(posixjoin('wx', wc)):
             copyFile(name, destdir)
 
+    # Copy the license files from wxWidgets
+    updateLicenseFiles(cfg)
+    shutil.copytree('license', opj(PDEST, 'license'))
+
     # Also add the waf executable, fetching it first if we don't already have it
     getWafCmd()
     copyFile('bin/waf-%s' % wafCurrentVersion, os.path.join(PDEST, 'bin'))

buildtools/config.py

@@ -16,16 +16,13 @@ import os
 import glob
 import fnmatch
 import re
-import tempfile
 import shutil
-import codecs
 import subprocess
 import platform
 
 from distutils.file_util import copy_file
 from distutils.dir_util  import mkpath
 from distutils.dep_util  import newer
-from distutils.spawn     import spawn
 
 import distutils.sysconfig
 
@@ -907,3 +904,13 @@ def getToolsPlatformName(useLinuxBits=False):
         if useLinuxBits:
             name += platform.architecture()[0][:2]
     return name
+
+
+def updateLicenseFiles(cfg):
+    from distutils.file_util import copy_file
+    from distutils.dir_util  import mkpath
+
+    mkpath('license')
+    for filename in ['preamble.txt', 'licence.txt', 'licendoc.txt', 'lgpl.txt']:
+        copy_file(opj(cfg.WXDIR, 'docs', filename), opj('license',filename), update=1, verbose=1)
+

setup.cfg

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[metadata]
+license-file = license/licence.txt

setup.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Author:      Robin Dunn
 #
 # Created:     3-Nov-2010
-# Copyright:   (c) 2010-2016 by Total Control Software
+# Copyright:   (c) 2010-2017 by Total Control Software
 # License:     wxWindows License
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ URL              = "http://wxPython.org/"
 #DOWNLOAD_URL     = "http://wxPython.org/download.php"
 #DOWNLOAD_URL     = "http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/"
 DOWNLOAD_URL     = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{}".format(NAME)
-LICENSE          = "wxWidgets Library License (LGPL derivative)"
+LICENSE          = "wxWindows Library License (https://opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows.php)"
 PLATFORMS        = "WIN32,WIN64,OSX,POSIX"
 KEYWORDS         = "GUI,wx,wxWindows,wxWidgets,cross-platform,user-interface,awesome"
 

wscript

@@ -468,15 +468,12 @@ def build(bld):
     sys.path.insert(0, thisdir)
 
     from distutils.file_util import copy_file
-    from distutils.dir_util  import mkpath
-    from buildtools.config   import opj
+    from buildtools.config   import opj, updateLicenseFiles
 
     cfg.finishSetup(bld.env.wx_config)
 
-    # update the license files
-    mkpath('license')
-    for filename in ['preamble.txt', 'licence.txt', 'licendoc.txt', 'lgpl.txt']:
-        copy_file(opj(cfg.WXDIR, 'docs', filename), opj('license',filename), update=1, verbose=1)
+    # Copy the license files from wxWidgets
+    updateLicenseFiles(cfg)
 
     # create the package's __version__ module
     open(opj(cfg.PKGDIR, '__version__.py'), 'w').write(