Crates.io download missing LICENSE file

[j-vanderstoep]

Good day,

I see this was reported previously in #47.

However, it doesn't look like #47 (comment) reflects how crates are typically downloaded from crates.io, by cargo or otherwise.

For example, if I run:

cargo add xml-rs@=1.0.0
cargo vendor

It downloads xml-rs without the LICENSE file. Whereas if I instead do:

cargo add xml-rs@=0.8.28
cargo vendor

The download includes the LICENSE file.

This is easily reproducible using crates.io's download link:

• https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/xml-rs/0.8.28/download (LICENSE included)
• https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/xml-rs/1.0.0/download (LICENSE missing)

I appreciate that the license is available from somewhere, ideally it would included in the crates.io download. Do you know how this could be fixed?

[kornelski]

xml-rs v1.0.0 doesn't contain any copyrightable code. It is just an empty package that redirects to xml v1.x (please note that xml-rs and xml are different crates).

I could upload some meaningless license file to the xml-rs leftover dummy package if you really need one, but I suggest switching to https://lib.rs/crates/xml directly, which does have real code and an actual license file.