On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:40:14PM +0530, Balasankar C wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently, the template copyright file that is generated by gem2deb uses > GPL-2.0+ as a placeholder license. Since a majority of the Ruby gems are > under MIT/Expat license, can we use that instead? I had opened a bug[0] long > back about it, but had forgotten about that. I understand using a better > tool to identify the license and fill the copyright file using that info is > the optimal solution. But this seems like a quick and harmless fix. If no > one objects, I intend to make this change in the gem2deb repo by this > weekend. Yeah, please go ahead. > [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786521 On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:45:16PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On 06/28/2017 12:40 PM, Balasankar C wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Currently, the template copyright file that is generated by gem2deb uses > > GPL-2.0+ as a placeholder license. Since a majority of the Ruby gems are > > under MIT/Expat license, can we use that instead? I had opened a bug[0] > > long back about it, but had forgotten about that. I understand using a > > better tool to identify the license and fill the copyright file using > > that info is the optimal solution. > licensecheck can do that, but for most packages, parsing .gemspec would > be enough. It would be good if you can read author from .gemspec. That would be even better ... > But I think it would be an improvement to have Expat as default. ... but just changing the template would be OK as well.
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