Detect and create default licence

lockedata / starters

R Package 📦 for initializing projects for various R activities :nut_and_bolt:

https://itsalocke.com/starters/

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Detect and create default licence #116

Open maelle opened 5 years ago

maelle commented 5 years ago

Cf https://github.com/r-lib/usethis/issues/482

ha0ye commented 4 years ago

I was just wondering about this myself... it definitely caused me a bit of confusion that I set up my defaults following the help for use_description(), and this would be reflected in DESCRIPTION, but without any license files created...

maelle commented 4 years ago

You mean in usethis or starters?

FWIW we, well at least I am no longer working on starters. Cc @stephlocke

ha0ye commented 4 years ago

🤷‍♂ It looks like the issue was closed in usethis. Admittedly this is fairly low priority!

stephlocke commented 4 years ago

By default in create_package_project we create an MIT license. For analysis and basic projects, we don't set any license because typically these need a more bespoke handling.

At the mo, we don't really support any passing of defaults into the DESCRIPTION file so it's not especially relevant to include a license requirement in it.

This isn't to say we can't do more on licensing or smart defaults, just that right now the opinionated setup is MIT by default for packages, and Bring Your Own License for everything else.