On Feb 25, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:
Adam Kennedy wrote:
There's a few classes of checks we can do.
If the package has a META.yml, it should have a license field.
There are about a dozen legitimate values.
license 'restrictive'
The is an absolute positive match for a disallowed license.
A check covering the above case could safely be added immediately.
Beyond that you have three additional cases...
- The license value exists but is not a known type
- There is no license value in the META.yml
- There is no META.yml
There is a snapshot of how the license field in META.yml is used at:
<http://thepierianspring.org/perl/meta>
[snip]
I missed the beginning of this conversation, but since the Beginning
Of Time we've rejected any value for the license field that isn't in
our list of valid licenses.
My guess is that the weird license values in that report were created
using MakeMaker or something.
-Ken
