FYI

I've been working the last months to get mongoose packaged and distributed as an official Fedora RPM, and I finally got approval from Fedora community. They have just observed, however, that it would be a good practice having a copy of MIT license text distributed in your .tar file (as a COPYING or LICENCING file), in order to completely fulfill their licencing policies.

Despite all source code file shipped possesses a header stating its license, please consider that comment and ship a license text file within your .tar as well.

Further information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines#License_Text

Thanks in advance, and best regards

Rafael

Can LICENSE file be created by the package script instead?

Despite it is not mandatory having a license file, it is nice ship it with software packages just to advise end-users that are unable to read the source code. However, LICENSE must be shipped within a tarball. As a packager, we are not allowed to insert license files for tarballs who doesn't have it.

It really would be nice if you could include it, in a next release.

Thanks for your attention.

Sounds Good. It'll be in from the next release on.

Pushed http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/source/detail?r=28225ce0567f5366f7f5a519777988b5c658b328

Thanks alot for answering this so promptly. Unfortunately, your push is newer than the tarball available in featured downloads, what makes it downloadable without those license file. I'll wait for a new release, anyway!