Summary

Revert our pyproject.toml license fields back to legacy configuration.

Review Request #14990 — Created April 1, 2026 and submitted April 1, 2026, 9:28 p.m.

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chipx86

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Djblets

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release-5.x

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Description

Modern pyproject.toml files are expected to use license and
license-files directives to express the licensing information.
Unfortunately, these newer settings are not supported by the latest
version of setuptools on Python 3.8, which means we can't pass CI or set
up editable builds.

This change moves us back to the prior, deprecated settings for the 5.x
branch.

Testing Done

Built a package on Python 3.8.

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Summary	ID
Revert our pyproject.toml license fields back to legacy configuration. Modern pyproject.toml files are expected to use `license` and `license-files` directives to express the licensing information. Unfortunately, these newer settings are not supported by the latest version of setuptools on Python 3.8, which means we can't pass CI or set up editable builds. This change moves us back to the prior, deprecated settings for the 5.x branch.	e5a3602849fc9a294e7fb4dd6c4ba002184fc1c2

Summary

Revert our pyproject.toml license fields back to legacy configuration.

Modern pyproject.toml files are expected to use `license` and `license-files` directives to express the licensing information. Unfortunately, these newer settings are not supported by the latest version of setuptools on Python 3.8, which means we can't pass CI or set up editable builds. This change moves us back to the prior, deprecated settings for the 5.x branch.

e5a3602849fc9a294e7fb4dd6c4ba002184fc1c2

flake8 passed.

JSHint passed.

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Status:: Completed
Change Summary:: Pushed to release-5.x (9fcebd6)