Drop the versionless `License ::` classifier now that `license` is a valid SPDX expression

[btschwertfeger]

This issue is part of a larger batch of similar-scoped issues we distribute in the context of our internal vulnerability and dependency tracking activities. The batch covers multiple projects, this is only one of them. The goal is to rise awareness and trigger/initiate the change towards clean project metadata in projects we depend on.

Summary

This project already declares a valid SPDX license id/expression in its packaging metadata (License: Apache-2.0 in the built METADATA), but the deprecated classifier License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License is still present. That classifier has no version and PEP 639-aware SBOM tooling like cyclonedx-bom can't map it to an SPDX id, so it falls back to emitting the raw classifier text as a free-text license name. This free-text field is just noise and causes downstream tooling to flag this project as non-SPDX-compliant.

Suggested fix

Remove the redundant License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License from classifiers in the packaging config. No change to the license field is needed.

How to reproduce

uv tool install cyclonedx-bom
uv venv .venv-repro
uv pip install --python .venv-repro/bin/python bcrypt
cyclonedx-py environment .venv-repro -o sbom.cdx.json

... and then check the .licenses property of the component. There should only something like:

// This is how it should look like
...
    "license": {
        "acknowledgement": "declared",
        "id": "<VALID SPDX IDENTIFIER>"
    }
...

and not:

// This is how it should not look like
...
    "license": {
       "acknowledgement": "declared",
       "name": "<CLASSIFIER TAKEN FROM METADATA"
    }
...

I'm happy to provide a PR to resolve this timely after approval!

[alex]

What's the motivation here? Is there some python packaging doc saying that the classifiers are deprecated?

[btschwertfeger]

The deprecation is outlined in the mentioned PEP: https://peps.python.org/pep-0639/#deprecate-license-classifiers

[alex]

okey doke