DEPRECATED: 'license' defined in snapcraft.yaml

[David Callé]

On 05/09/2016 13:03, Jamie Bennett wrote:
> On 04/09/16 at 01:42am, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> Just got the above error message as I was finishing up my LDC snap.
>>
>> What's the recommended way to include license information?  I ask because
>> the 'snapcraft syntax' page on snapcraft.io lists the `licence` attribute
>> without any mention of deprecation or an alternative for it:
>> http://snapcraft.io/docs/build-snaps/syntax
>>
>> Apologies if the question has been asked and answered before, but I didn't
>> find anything obvious in the mailing list archives, so I thought I would ask
>> the question very obviously in order to correct that ;-)
> License files can be copied across if they are present in the setup/
> directory. Reproduced from docs/meta.md
>
> "
> ## Fixed assets
>
> Some metadata is provided in the form of conventions, such as license files,
> icons and desktop files among others. For these fixed files to make it into
> your final snap they need to be in a `setup` directory at the same level of
> your `snapcraft.yaml`.
> "
>
> Of course the website needs updating to reflect the new syntax (and the fact
> that icon e.t.c also uses the setup/ dir now).

You can find these details in the docs here:
http://snapcraft.io/docs/build-snaps/metadata#fixed-assets

Cheers,
David
>
>> Thanks & best wishes,
>>
>>      -- Joe
> Regards,
> Jamie.
>
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