pyproject: switch to PEP 639 license metadata

bgilbert · bgilbert · commit d873500e8ef5 · 2025-04-28T09:09:14.000-05:00
Use a SPDX license expression to declare our licensing; add links to our
license files; and drop the deprecated license Trove classifier.

Without this change, setuptools shows large deprecation warnings saying
that support for the old project.license syntax will be removed on
2026-Feb-18.  However, the new syntax requires setuptools &gt;= 77, so this
change breaks compatibility with setuptools 61-76.  Users installing from
source will be unaffected because the build frontend automatically updates
setuptools if required, but Linux distro packaging disallows such updates,
so this change breaks package builds for many still-supported distro
versions.

To build with older setuptools, distros will need to patch out the
project.license field and reduce the build-system.requires dependency.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gilbert &lt;bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ maintainers = [
 ]
 description = "Python interface to OpenSlide"
 readme = "README.md"
-license = {text = "GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1"}
+license = "LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain"
+license-files = ["COPYING.LESSER", "**/LICENSE.*"]
 keywords = ["OpenSlide", "whole-slide image", "virtual slide", "library"]
 classifiers = [
     "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
     "Intended Audience :: Developers",
     "Intended Audience :: Healthcare Industry",
     "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
-    "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v2 (LGPLv2)",
     "Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X",
     "Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows",
     "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
@@ -87,5 +87,5 @@ pythonpath = "tests"
 ignore_messages = "(Hyperlink target \".*\" is not referenced\\.$)"
 
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools >= 61.0.0"]
+requires = ["setuptools >= 77.0.0"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
