From 495ee76f9168523e10b9e343a22e21e183e81d41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:12:46 +0000 Subject: gemspec: use SPDX-compatible license for GPL-2.0+ Current versions of RubyGems still complains about the '+' is valid according to: http://spdx.org/licenses --- rainbows.gemspec | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'rainbows.gemspec') diff --git a/rainbows.gemspec b/rainbows.gemspec index 3410197..afc8b5a 100644 --- a/rainbows.gemspec +++ b/rainbows.gemspec @@ -53,7 +53,11 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s| # NeverBlock, currently only available on http://gems.github.com/ # s.add_dependency(%q, ["~> 0.1.6.1"]) - # We inherited the Ruby 1.8 license from Mongrel, so we're stuck with it. - # GPLv3 is preferred. - s.licenses = ["GPLv2+", "Ruby 1.8"] + # Note: To avoid ambiguity, we intentionally avoid the SPDX-compatible + # 'Ruby' here since Ruby 1.9.3 switched to BSD-2-Clause license while + # we already inherited our license from Mongrel during Ruby 1.8. + # We cannot automatically switch licenses when Ruby changes their license, + # so we remain optionally-licensed under the terms of Ruby 1.8 despite + # not having a good way to specify this in an SPDX-compatible way... + s.licenses = ['GPL-2.0+', 'Nonstandard'] # Nonstandard = 'Ruby 1.8' end -- cgit v1.2.3-24-ge0c7