[DRE-maint] Bug#786521: gem2deb: Extract License information from gem

[Balasankar C]

Package: gem2deb
Version: 0.16
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Can we somehow extract the license infromation from the gem and then generate
debian/copyright file using that information? Atleast, use that information to
generate a template license instead of using GPL-2+ by default.

If that isn't possible (or feasible), can we use MIT as the template license
(This is purely based on personal experience - Most of the gems I've seen are
MIT licensed)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ml_IN, LC_CTYPE=ml_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gem2deb depends on:
ii  build-essential      11.7
ii  debhelper            9.20150507
ii  devscripts           2.15.4
ii  gem2deb-test-runner  0.16
ii  perl                 5.20.2-4
ii  python3-debian       0.1.27
ii  ruby                 1:2.1.5+z
ii  ruby-all-dev         1:2.1.5+z
ii  ruby-setup           3.4.1-9

Versions of packages gem2deb recommends:
ii  apt-file  2.5.4

gem2deb suggests no packages.

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