Cargo supports the license-file
key in Cargo.toml
. However, it only supports one license file. Might it be worth allowing that key to accept an array of files as well? I’m working on a project right now where different parts of the code are covered by different licenses.
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Cargo follows SPDX 2.1, which allows specifying multiple licenses.
https://spdx.org/spdx-specification-21-web-version
Ctrl-F “Representing Multiple Licenses”
Nevermind. You’re referring to license-file
, not license
.
For now, I’d suggest combining them into one license file, describing which parts of the code use which license.
It doesn’t seem unreasonable to allow an array, but I would suggest renaming it to license-files
and making it mutually-exclusive with license-file
, to avoid parsing incompatibilities with existing code that expects license-file
to contain one file.
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