DEPRECATED: 'license' defined in snapcraft.yaml

[Jamie Bennett]

On 05/09/16 at 07:06pm, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> On 5 September 2016 at 18:08, David Callé <david.calle at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
>    
>     > 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
> 
> 
> 
> This does not mention the magic name(s) needed for license (nee licence,
> copyright, legal, copying etc.) files to be discovered and made available from
> the snap metadata by installers, the snap store or other consumers. Which is
> what we are really asking.

Just put the license in the setup/ directory and name it license.txt.
 
> --
> Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop at canonical.com>

Regards,
Jamie.

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