license = none in cache when ruby gem doesn't include License files but has license in gemspec about licensed HOT 4 CLOSED

My understanding of RubyGems is obviously tenuous and I don't read closely...noting gem specification aws-sdk-core does find what ought to be in the gemspec file, I see that gemspec files for every installed gem are in (for my local case) ~/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/specifications. I guess that's what you were getting at @jonabc. I'm not sure either. I guess that it could make sense to look there as a fallback in licensed rather than licensee.

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/cc @benbalter @mlinksva do you have an opinion here?

IIRC licensee handles pulling data from project files like *.gemspec as a backup if other explicit license file contents aren't found, however I'm not sure how to tell licensee to look at both the gem's expanded location on disk as well as the gemspec file when they are in two different locations. 💭 ?

from licensed.

It seems the aws-* gems get installed (e.g., in ~/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems) with neither a LICENSE file nor a .gemspec file. I haven't looked into why this is the case, but the result is that licesne[ed] have nothing to work with locally. Compare with jmespath, which is also installed given the example files above, and licensed records the license found in its LICENSE.txt.

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Ok, so to build on that. If this is being handled by licensed, I think the best method to do so would be a Bundler::Dependency subclass that overrides Project#package_manager_file and returns data for the gemspec file if the base implementation doesn't find a file and the spec file exists in the gem specifications directory.

from licensed.