pip-licenses does not support packages with license files named "COPYING"

[johnthagen]

It is somewhat common (as I've found trying to ensure that all of my packages have license files in a pip-licenses report) for packages to use COPYING as their license file name.

See this reference in a setuptools issue: pypa/setuptools#1636 (comment)

In the same way that README files are automatically grafted into the source distribution, it would be nice if LICENSE / COPYING files were also included by default

Currently pip-licenses cannot find these license files due to this code:

pip-licenses/piplicenses.py

Line 138 in 742c814

license_file_base = os.path.join(pkg.location, pkg_dirname, 'LICENSE*')

Could this be expanded to include COPYING* as well?

Example:

• jsonschema

[raimon49]

Thanks for the report.

Could this be expanded to include COPYING* as well?

It is possible to find a match for LICENSE* / COPYING* in the distribution. Will be implemented soon.