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Feature Request

There are a handful of files that need to be added to builds result, for legal reasons.
This affects wheel and sdist builds.
The related files MUST be added to the package. the files MUST NOT install on the host system.

well-known legal files are:

• LICENCE/LICENSE - obviously
• NOTICE - some license texts, like Apache-2.0, explicitly state this exact file (name) as a optional source of custom license addendum
• COPYING - obviously
• AUTHORS - obviously

read also: https://wheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide.html?#including-license-files-in-the-generated-wheel-file
They describe this already, and they also allow arbitrary file suffixes.

desired behavior

• all the well-known legal files are detected automatically, and are added to be build result.
  • possibly arbitrary file suffixes are allowed
  • added to sdist root
  • added to wheel's .dist-info directory
• the bundled legal files are not "installed" during installation. they are not deflated into the site-packages

current behavior

with poetry 1.6.1:

• LICENSE is detected
• NOTICE is not detected
• COPYING is detected for wheel only
• AUTHORS is not detected

tried to add the needed files manually with include.
This will also cause the files to be installed into site-packages, which MUST NOT happen.

found a feature request to have the list of legal_files configurable, which made it never to public.
But this issue is not about configuration but about auto-detect, one like other packaging systems have.