Update license

CHANGELOG.md

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 ## [Unreleased]
 
+- Updated license from NCSA to MIT
+
 ## [0.1.0] - 2023-10-27
 
 - Initial release

LICENSE.txt

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-Copyright © 2023 Species File Group. All rights reserved.
+Copyright © 2024 Species File Group. All rights reserved.
 
-Developed by: Species File Group 
-Illinois Natural History Survey
-https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/bananompy
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal with the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 
-    Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-    Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-    Neither the names of <Name of Development Group, Name of Institution>, nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.

README.md

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 ## License
 
-The package is available as open source under the terms of the [NCSA/Illinois](https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/bananompy/blob/main/LICENSE.txt) license. You can learn more about the NCSA license on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois/NCSA_Open_Source_License) and compare it with other open source licenses at the [Open Source Initiative](https://opensource.org/license/uoi-ncsa-php/).
+The package is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT](https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/bananompy/blob/main/LICENSE.txt) license. You can learn more about the MIT license on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) and compare it with other open source licenses at the [Open Source Initiative](https://opensource.org/license/mit).
 
 ## Code of Conduct
 

bananompy/package_metadata.py

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 __version__ = "0.0.1"
 __title__ = "bananompy"
 __author__ = "Geoff Ower"
-__license__ = "NCSA"
+__license__ = "MIT"

setup.py

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     author_email="[email protected]",
     url="http://github.com/speciesfilegroup/bananompy",
     download_url="https://github.com/speciesfilegroup/bananompy/archive/refs/tags/v0.0.1.tar.gz",
-    license="NCSA",
+    license="MIT",
     packages=find_packages(exclude=["test-*"]),
     install_requires=[
         "requests>2.7",
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         "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
         "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Bio-Informatics",
         "Natural Language :: English",
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License",
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11"
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12"
     ],
     keywords = ['bionomia', 'biodiversity', 'collectors', 'specimens', 'API', 'web-services', 'species', 'natural history', 'taxonomists', 'biologists'],
 )