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Require LICENSE file #5826

Closed jonasfj closed 2 years ago

jonasfj commented 2 years ago

We should:

FMorschel commented 2 years ago

Maybe warn the users that a LICENSE file could not be located just like the verified publisher.

isoos commented 2 years ago

After randomly sampling 9250 (~28%) of the packages, the following names are present (with random examples):

Roughly 1% of the packages are not using LICENSE as the file name, and only 0.2% has no license file (which is a must for new uploads, these packages have no recent version).

isoos commented 2 years ago

the final numbers (out of 32404 packages) are not that different in percentages:

Roughly 0.9% of the packages are not using LICENSE as the file name.