do not install COPYING file

[kloczek]

COPYING file is no essential and better is to leave it in source tree allowing packagers decide what to do with that file.

Remove of that file suggested in #116

[sarroutbi]

I am not sure this does not break GPL. For example, when distributing JOSE rpm package, the rpm has the COPYING file included:

$ rpm -ql jose-11-8.fc39.x86_64.rpm
...
/usr/share/licenses/jose
/usr/share/licenses/jose/COPYING
...

[kloczek]

I am not sure this does not break GPL. For example, when distributing JOSE rpm package, the rpm has the COPYING file included:

I did not wrote anything about breaking something.
Provide COPYING file by Fedora package is part of te Fedora packaging policy.
MIT license do not require provide that file as part of installable resources. This is why package of the the distribution on which I'm working has only in spec file only

License:        MIT (https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html)

[sarroutbi]

Sorry, I meant Apache license. According to it (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0):

4. Redistribution. You may reproduce and distribute copies of the Work or Derivative Works thereof in any medium, with or without modifications, and in Source or Object form, provided that You meet the following conditions:

You must give any other recipients of the Work or Derivative Works a copy of this License;
...

So, IMHO, this PR should not be merged and COPYING file should be distributed

[eli-schwartz]

As a pure aside: https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-1-1-0.html#the-project-function-now-supports-setting-the-project-license-files

If you bumped your minimum version of meson to 1.1.0, then you could set the license file in the project() function and meson could install it in combination with meson.install_dependency_manifest() -- or if you don't use install_dependency_manifest() it will automatically install for you when users define meson setup --licensedir=/usr/share/licenses/jose.

[sarroutbi]

As a pure aside: https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-1-1-0.html#the-project-function-now-supports-setting-the-project-license-files

If you bumped your minimum version of meson to 1.1.0, then you could set the license file in the project() function and meson could install it in combination with meson.install_dependency_manifest() -- or if you don't use install_dependency_manifest() it will automatically install for you when users define meson setup --licensedir=/usr/share/licenses/jose.

Hello @eli-schwartz : Thanks for clarifying. I guess this should be tracked in a new issue.