On 10/12/2011 03:54 PM, 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? >
As most of you seem to agree, I created the following pull request[1] containing the suggested change. Feel free to accept/comment/edit ... [1] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/202 -- 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
