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weppos / publicsuffix-ruby

Domain name parser for Ruby based on the Public Suffix List.
https://simonecarletti.com/code/publicsuffix
MIT License
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data/list.txt and test/tests.txt licenses #137

Closed voxik closed 7 years ago

voxik commented 7 years ago

The data/list.txt header states the file is licensed under Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0 and test/tests.txt refers to public domain. Shouldn't this be mentioned somewhere along other license information in README and in .gemspec "licenses" field? Would you mind to include the MPLv2 license file?

Since your gem is going to be require by RoR 5.1, I am trying to package it for Fedora and Fedora Guidelines [1] encourages me to ask you for this.

Thx for your help.

weppos commented 7 years ago

The Gemspec licenses section refers to the license adopted for the lib (or at least this is my current interpretation), and in fact is correctly contains MIT that is the license adopted for this project.

The "Mozilla Public License" applies exclusively to the PSL (the list itself).

I can add a mention to the README. Would that be sufficient for you?

voxik commented 7 years ago

In RPM world, the "license" field lists all licenses of all files included in the package. I can't see any reason why it should be different for gems. Unfortunately there is no governance body which could provide answer for the gem case, so I leave it up to you.

But listing the licenses in README would definitely help. Thx.

weppos commented 7 years ago

Sorry for the delay. I added the info to the README.