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License missing from gemspec #3

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bf4 opened this issue Jul 22, 2013 · 3 comments
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License missing from gemspec #3

bf4 opened this issue Jul 22, 2013 · 3 comments

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bf4 commented Jul 22, 2013

Some companies will only use gems with a certain license.
The canonical and easy way to check is via the gemspec,

via e.g.

spec.license = 'MIT'
# or
spec.licenses = ['MIT', 'GPL-2']

Even for projects that already specify a license, including a license in your gemspec is a good practice, since it is easily
discoverable there without having to check the readme or for a license file.

For example, there is a License Finder gem to help companies ensure all gems they use
meet their licensing needs. This tool depends on license information being available in the gemspec. This is an important enough
issue that even Bundler now generates gems with a default 'MIT' license.

If you need help choosing a license (sorry, I haven't checked your readme or looked for a license file),
github has created a license picker tool.

In case you're wondering how I found you and why I made this issue, it's because I'm collecting stats on gems (I was originally
looking for download data) and decided to collect license metadata,too, and make issues for gemspecs not specifying a license as a public service :).

I hope you'll consider specifying a license in your gemspec. If not, please just close the issue and let me know. In either case, I'll follow up. Thanks!

p.s. I've written a blog post about this project

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atd commented Jul 22, 2013

Happy to merge a pull request

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bf4 commented Jul 23, 2013

Will come back to you...

bf4 added a commit to bf4/rails_engine_decorators that referenced this issue Jul 26, 2013
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bf4 commented Jul 26, 2013

Done

atd added a commit that referenced this issue Jul 29, 2013
[#3] Add license to gemspec, is MIT
@atd atd closed this as completed Jul 29, 2013
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