License type on pypi about branca HOT 4 CLOSED

This library is distributed under an MIT license: https://github.com/python-visualization/branca/blob/master/LICENSE.txt This is a very permissive license so I can't see how this would cause issues for you to use it in your company. Please read more about the MIT license to see what it means.

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Also, many OSS licenses have a copyright statement. That is not usual. See the first line of the MIT license template: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

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Thanks for response. I think the reason was our scan simply takes the license label from pypi and it sees it says copyright. So it's prohibited from being downloaded. Any chance the meta data could reflect the MIT license instead of the Copyright wording currently shown on Pypi?

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I see what you mean. This is what shows on the branca PyPI page:

And this is what for example shows on the Numpy PyPI page:

I reckon that we want it to say "License: MIT"

On the folium PyPI page this is already working correctly:

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