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The packaging docs say not to use license

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reading the linked packaging guide and searching this repository for the quoted license guidance or generated pyproject documentation. Confirm which project text is affected and update it so the license recommendation matches current Python packaging guidance; done when the misleading wording is corrected.

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Description

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/writing-pyproject-toml/#license

If you are using a standard, well-known license, it is not necessary to use this field. Instead, you should one of the classifiers starting with License ::.

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