license.txt and snap/ directory

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hi Joseph,

The discussion above felt like painting an incorrect picture of what we're
aiming at. We *definitely* want to track license information inside the
snap format in a proper location. We want to support both basic cases such
as just listing a well known name, custom licenses, and all the way up to
requiring an explicit agreement with the provided text.

We're not there yet, but this is in our short to medium term roadmap for
sure.


On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <
joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:

> On 07/02/17 00:24, Kyle Fazzari wrote:
>
>> The fact that an empty directory is created here is a bug[1]. It should
>> only create that directory if there's something to put in there. What
>> Sergio is saying is this:
>>
>> Snapcraft-specific things, like hooks from snapcraft parts, command
>> wrappers (eventually, not yet) will end up in the snap/ directory of the
>> built snap. This has no bearing on the snap format, it's something
>> internal to snapcraft (it could just as easily have chosen to place
>> those things in the foo/ directory).
>>
>> The things in meta/ are specific to snapd. This directory is literally
>> what defines "this random squashfs image" to be a snap.
>>
>
> OK, makes sense.  BTW, I hope I didn't come over as overly negative in my
> reply to Sergio: if so it wasn't intended.
>
> Can I however raise a plea that `meta/` should contain licensing
> information as a requirement?  Even if it's not actively used by snapd
> right now, it makes sense as a location and it would also make sense (in
> future) to be able to do things like
>
>     snap license whatever
>
> to check the available licensing information.
>
> More generally, it seems like a good idea to me that (i) snap packages
> must contain licensing information, (ii) it will be available in a
> standardized location both in the snap package definition and the generated
> snap package, and (iii) this will be enforced/guaranteed by snapcraft.
>
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