Don't install the LICENSE as a datafile

[dirkmueller]

Data files are installed in the wrong directory when packaging this,
and it is very uncommon to do so. data files should be files needed
for the runtime only.

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[dirkmueller]

I can not easily sign such a CLA.

[rnpridgeon]

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We will look into this a bit more to figure out what exactly the best practice is here. I suspect omitting the license entirely is less than ideal.

[Atheuz]

Add in license_files key instead?
See here: https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/references/keywords.html

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[MSeal]

This issue appears to have been resolved by a later move to pyproject.toml -- I noticed the manifest for licenses was still odd and used the newer license fields in #2001 to further normalize the project file registration.