Making the world a better place

[Benjamin Fleischer]

Check how this sweet project hack:

https://gist.github.com/bf4/5952053#file-license_results-rtf

I'm using rubygems/gems to download the latest gems and check for a license

If missing, I use ghi to check for an issue mentioning 'license'

If no such issue, I create an issue 'License missing from gemspec'

-> profit

Still requires manual intervention to respond to people, answer questions, and thank them.

-Benjamin

[Brent Wheeldon]

Nice! I'd been thinking of doing something like this myself, now you've saved me the trouble!

I think that, in the long term, the permanent solution to this problem is for rubygems to require a license to publish a gem using their service. This would make the detection of licenses trivial. But it seems like rubygems isn't willing to require it.

[Benjamin Fleischer]

So, I got this PR in to recommend a license https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/713

It should update the spec guide once a new version of rubygems is released http://guides.rubygems.org/specification-reference/ ( see https://github.com/rubygems/guides/pull/67#issuecomment-28323718 )

-Benjamin

[Brent Wheeldon]

Nice work!