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arangamani / test_rubygem

This is a simple test gem used for testing Rubygems API Client. Do NOT use.
https://rubygems.org/gems/test_rubygem
MIT License
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License missing from gemspec #1

Open bf4 opened 11 years ago

bf4 commented 11 years ago

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

arangamani commented 11 years ago

Benjamin,

Thanks for the info. This ruby project is very simple project to just build a simple gem (which doesn't do anything) and use that gem to test the Rubygems API. Recently I use this project to test publishing gems to rubygems.org using my jenkins plugin that I developed. Anyway, I'll generate gemspec and add licence info :)

Kannan.

bf4 commented 11 years ago

Ok, interesting.

bf4 commented 10 years ago

bump?