Clarify licence in package metadata #1384
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Some packages provide their code under multiple licences (e.g. MIT OR Apache-2.0), while the tqdm/LICENCE file indicates that there are contributions given under separate licences, resulting in a licence of MPL-2.0 AND MIT.
The goal of this change is to help downstream users to disambiguate cases where multiple licences are involved. Although PEP 639 is not yet here, nothing stops individual packages from providing a SPDX license expression in the existing license metadata field, which is what I've chosen here.
Additional information
Parsed licence expression example
SPDX License List