How to include license file in setup.py script?

August 14, 2023 by Tarik

Write a setup.cfg file and in there specify:

[metadata]
license_files = LICENSE.txt

For this to work it seems like wheel is required to be installed. That is:

pip install wheel

If you have wheel already installed and it doesn’t work, try to update it:

pip install --upgrade wheel

Then when installing the package via pip install <path> the LICENSE file gets included.