I bet this might cut down on delete requests we get too, since someone pushing an internal gem may opt to not have a license. Then again, authors of the popular gem generators (say, Bundler) may set the default to an OSS license, making the check moot anyway :( On Oct 12, 2011 1:19 PM, "Jim Weirich" <jim.weir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a good idea as long as it is mandatory at the gem creation time, > not at the gem usage time. > > On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Pavol Rusnak wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > I'd like to propose making license/licenses field mandatory. While doing > > rubygem packages for Linux distributions we have to deal with licenses a > > lot and currently not having a license field in gemspec is the only > > thing stopping us from doing automated packaging. One has to unpack the > > gem, search for the license text and change the field by hand. If these > > fields were mandatory (i.e. one or the other), it would make the whole > > process much easier. In my opinion the license is very important aspect > > of the gem similarly important as its name and I think also non-Linux > > parts of Ruby ecosystem would benefit from that change. What do you > think? > > > > -- > > Best Regards / S pozdravom, > > > > Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o > > openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 > > PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 > > prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic > > _______________________________________________ > > RubyGems-Developers mailing list > > http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems > > RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > > -- > -- Jim Weirich > -- jim.weir...@gmail.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > RubyGems-Developers mailing list > http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems > RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
