This is a good idea as long as it is mandatory at the gem creation time, not at the gem usage time.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Pavol Rusnak wrote: > Hi all! > > I'd like to propose making license/licenses field mandatory. While doing > rubygem packages for Linux distributions we have to deal with licenses a > lot and currently not having a license field in gemspec is the only > thing stopping us from doing automated packaging. One has to unpack the > gem, search for the license text and change the field by hand. If these > fields were mandatory (i.e. one or the other), it would make the whole > process much easier. In my opinion the license is very important aspect > of the gem similarly important as its name and I think also non-Linux > parts of Ruby ecosystem would benefit from that change. What do you think? > > -- > Best Regards / S pozdravom, > > Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o > openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 > PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 > prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic > _______________________________________________ > RubyGems-Developers mailing list > http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers -- -- Jim Weirich -- [email protected] _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
