License missing from gemspec

[bf4]

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']

There is even a License Finder to help companies ensure all gems they use
meet their licensing needs. This tool depends on license information being available in the gemspec.
Including a license in your gemspec is a good practice, in any case.

How did I find you?

I'm using a script to collect stats on gems, originally looking for download data, but decided to collect licenses too,
and make issues for missing ones as a public service :)
https://gist.github.com/bf4/5952053#file-license_issue-rb-L13 So far it's going pretty well

[Erol]

This gem's skeleton was written with an older version of Bundler, and I just learned that the latest version of Bundler adds spec.license:

# coding: utf-8
lib = File.expand_path('../lib', __FILE__)
$LOAD_PATH.unshift(lib) unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(lib)
require 'meh/version'

Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.name          = "meh"
  spec.version       = Meh::VERSION
  spec.authors       = ["Erol Fornoles"]
  spec.email         = ["erol.fornoles@gmail.com"]
  spec.description   = %q{TODO: Write a gem description}
  spec.summary       = %q{TODO: Write a gem summary}
  spec.homepage      = ""
  spec.license       = "MIT"

  spec.files         = `git ls-files`.split($/)
  spec.executables   = spec.files.grep(%r{^bin/}) { |f| File.basename(f) }
  spec.test_files    = spec.files.grep(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
  spec.require_paths = ["lib"]

  spec.add_development_dependency "bundler", "~> 1.3"
  spec.add_development_dependency "rake"
end

Thanks for the heads up!

[bf4]

Great, thanks!