Universal Package has no license field in metadata

[it_9582]

Hi there,

we are currently evaluating the use of Proget and found a possible limitation for our use case which referes to universal packages.

We have some kind of components which are build with third-party components (Licensed under MIT, Apache or so) or closed-source components.
The built components should be stored in a universal package, because it does not feed in a another package type (conan, rpm, deb, ...). It would be really nice if this package would show which licenses are involved in the build so that the Manager could check if all used licenses are compliant.

The third-party components could be something like the SoC-Vendor SDK which not really fit into a conan package to deploy it, it would better fit into a universal package but on this we could not set the license.

Is it possible to implement this feature or there other possible ways to build this in Proget.

Best regards,
Florian

[stevedennis]

Hi @it_9582 ,

You can specify licensing information in the description or in a custom metadata field like _licenseCode or something. It's not something that ProGet "reads" or "understands", mostly we didn't imagine users would package and upload third-party content with unwanted licenses.

If that's a use case that your mid/long-term implementation, we could definitely explore working together and properly adding/supporting it as a feature. It's not something we'd want to just "quickly throw in" from a forum post :)

Definitely chat with your account manager / point of contact once you're closer to or past the "purchase" side of things and we can make it happen. I've forwarded this message to him as well.

Thanks,
Steve

[it_9582]

Hi @stevedennis,

thanks for your reply, it would be really nice if this feature could be implemented. We would chat about this with our point of contact.

Thanks,
Florian