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Re: Use MIT license in gem2deb copyright template



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.

But I think it would be an improvement to have Expat as default.

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