Put license back in gem

[tdawson]

Although I am a fan of cleaning up things. Can you please put the license back in the gem.

[zeljkofilipin]

As far as I can see, the license is there:

https://github.com/grosser/parallel/blob/master/parallel.gemspec#L11
https://github.com/grosser/parallel/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE.txt

[grosser]

Thanks for helping out @zeljkofilipin :D

[ktdreyer]

Hi folks,

@tdawson is working on packaging this gem for Fedora, and the Fedora Packaging Guidelines suggest that we ask you to include the license file in the gem itself.

In the specific case of parallel's MIT license, all derivative copies of parallel are required to contain the disclaimer text within the MIT license (as described in the sentence "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.") So in order to ease development and distribution of the parallel gem, it makes sense to simply include this text the gem itself.

More details about this can be found on Fedora's wiki, under the "License Text" section: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#License_Text

Would you mind re-opening this ticket in GitHub?

Would you mind adding the license file to the gem on rubygems.org?

[grosser]

What exactly is the deal with parallel vs fedora, is it somehow needed on fedora and nowhere else ?
I got 124 gems without a license text and this one suddenly is an issue ?
Are you trying to release all gems as fedora packages?

[mmahut]

The MIT license says the license text shall be included in all distribution copies, this includes gems too.

Fedora Project has a requirement to be compatible with the used license and to make things easier it is suggested to ask upstream to ship this with the gem to be in comply with the MIT license. If the upstream disagrees, this is fine, we will ship it with the package manually, but better be safe than sorry.

[ktdreyer]

I should also add that Fedora has a policy of staying close to upstream. So it would be really awesome to see this fixed here too :)

[grosser]

ok, added...