Licensing Missing from NuGet

[clurdish]

Category

• Bug

Describe the bug

Packages published to NuGet are missing the licensing property, which should be MIT according to this repository.

My understanding is that the .csproj files are missing a licensing definition as defined in NuGet documentation (here and here). Example below.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    ....
    <PropertyGroup>
        <PackageLicenseExpression>MIT</PackageLicenseExpression>
    </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

Steps to reproduce

1. Navigate to NuGet (any version of any of the packages published by this repository).
   a. Example: https://www.nuget.org/packages/PnP.Core.Auth
2. No license is listed for the package

Expected behavior

I expect the MIT license to be listed on each package listed on NuGet.

Environment details (development & target environment)

• SDK version: 1.7.0
• OS: WIndows 10
• SDK used in: Azure Function v4
• Framework: .NET 6
• Browser(s): Chrome v104
• Tooling: Visual Studio 2022
• Additional details: This is reproducible from any platform/tooling from what I can tell

Additional context

I'm working in a space where all third-party dependencies are scanned by a tool called Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle OSS. Any packages that are missing licensing are rejected with a critical legal warning. PnP.Core was flagged by this system.

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[0-0-1-0-1-0-1-0]

This is also true for all the PnP.Core.X packages as well (Auth, Admin, Transformation, Transformation.Sharepoint).

[jansenbe]

Good point @clurdish , I'll merge your PR as we indeed should specify license information in our nuget packages