Cocoapods: 'Unable to read the license file' for custom license file locations

Created on 4 Aug 2016 · 9Comments · Source: CocoaPods/CocoaPods

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When using a project with a custom license file location, CocoaPods warns it can't find it. I have only tested this with a single pod (Changeset) but it seem to be configured correctly, so I think it's a CocoaPods issue (i.e. I haven't been able to find other projects with custom license file location). This can be reproduced with a brand new Xcode project/Podfile (link below). I get this warning when running pod install.

[!] Unable to read the license file `/Users/mikkel/Development/TEST/Pods/Changeset/LICENSE` for the spec `Changeset (1.0.5)`

This is the podspec from Changeset:

Pod::Spec.new do |spec|
    spec.name = 'Changeset'
    spec.version = '1.0.5'
    spec.license = { :type => 'MIT', :file => 'LICENSE.md' }
    spec.homepage = 'https://github.com/osteslag/Changeset'
    spec.author = { 'Joachim Bondo' => '[email protected]' }
    spec.social_media_url = 'https://twitter.com/osteslag'
    spec.summary = 'Minimal edits from one collection to another'
    spec.description = 'A Swift value type to compute and hold the edits required to go from one CollectionType of Equatable elements to another.'
    spec.source = { :git => 'https://github.com/osteslag/Changeset.git', :tag => "v#{spec.version}" }
    spec.source_files = 'Sources/*.swift'
    spec.requires_arc = true
    spec.ios.deployment_target = '8.0'
    spec.osx.deployment_target = '10.9'
    spec.watchos.deployment_target = '2.0'
end

What did you do?

Added the pod Changeset to my project
Run pod install

What did you expect to happen?

Installation without warnings.

What happened instead?

Pod is installed but with warnings:

Analyzing dependencies
Downloading dependencies
Installing Changeset (1.0.5)
Generating Pods project
Integrating client project

[!] Please close any current Xcode sessions and use `TEST.xcworkspace` for this project from now on.
Sending stats
Pod installation complete! There is 1 dependency from the Podfile and 1 total pod installed.

[!] Unable to read the license file `/Users/mikkel/Development/TEST/Pods/Changeset/LICENSE` for the spec `Changeset (1.0.5)`

[!] Unable to read the license file `/Users/mikkel/Development/TEST/Pods/Changeset/LICENSE` for the spec `Changeset (1.0.5)`

CocoaPods Environment

Stack

   CocoaPods : 1.0.1
        Ruby : ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16 revision 53162) [universal.x86_64-darwin15]
    RubyGems : 2.0.14.1
        Host : Mac OS X 10.11.6 (15G31)
       Xcode : 7.3.1 (7D1014)
         Git : git version 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66)
Ruby lib dir : /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib
Repositories : master - https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git @ 9802150c0eb574bdff709656a6345a3f1865717b
               master-1 - [email protected]:CocoaPods/Specs.git @ 96cd568f5e0a7ca44b7596dc46ed9d5f895768f2
               mobilelife - https://github.com/mobilelife/DanskeBank-Pods.git @ 7265933610d75c411b763cce2fcc2c64f51c4a20
               mobilelife-1 - [email protected]:mobilelife/DanskeBank-Pods.git @ 7265933610d75c411b763cce2fcc2c64f51c4a20

Installation Source

Executable Path: /usr/local/bin/pod

Plugins

cocoapods-acknowledgements : 1.1.1
cocoapods-deintegrate      : 1.0.0
cocoapods-plugins          : 1.0.0
cocoapods-search           : 1.0.0
cocoapods-stats            : 1.0.0
cocoapods-trunk            : 1.0.0
cocoapods-try              : 1.0.0

Podfile

# Uncomment this line to define a global platform for your project
# platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'TEST' do
  # Comment this line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  pod 'Changeset'

end

Project that demonstrates the issue

Sample project

Source

miklselsoe

Most helpful comment

For anyone that may run across this later, I had this issue with the Lookback pod, but none of my coworkers did. What fixed it for me was just removing all the installed pods and reinstalling them. This was after a pod cache clean --all and pod install which did not resolve the issue.

jasonmerino on 24 Oct 2017

👍15 😕1

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Looks like the 1.0.5 version of this Pod refers to a non-existing license file: https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/blob/master/Specs/Changeset/1.0.5/Changeset.podspec.json#L6 — please report this upstream.

neonichu on 4 Aug 2016

I also encountered this problem, don't know how to solve

linmingzhi on 22 Dec 2016

Hi @linmingzhi! This issue is quite old. Would you mind filing a new issue and filling out the issue template? Thanks!

benasher44 on 22 Dec 2016

GitPodTextSDK has the license file ,I can see The picture in The attachment。

GitPodTextSDK.podspec passed validation.but I can not search GitPodTextSDK,What should I do ？

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linmingzhi on 23 Dec 2016

GitPodTextSDK git:(1.0.1) pod trunk push

[!] Found podspec GitPodTextSDK.podspec
Updating spec repo master

CocoaPods 1.2.0.beta.1 is available.
To update use: sudo gem install cocoapods --pre
[!] This is a test version we'd love you to try.

For more information, see https://blog.cocoapods.org and the CHANGELOG for this version at https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/releases/tag/1.2.0.beta.1

Validating podspec
-> GitPodTextSDK (1.0.1)

Updating spec repo master

CocoaPods 1.2.0.beta.1 is available.
To update use: sudo gem install cocoapods --pre
[!] This is a test version we'd love you to try.

For more information, see https://blog.cocoapods.org and the CHANGELOG for this version at https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/releases/tag/1.2.0.beta.1

🎉 Congrats

🚀 GitPodTextSDK (1.0.1) successfully published
📅 December 23rd, 01:17
🌎 https://cocoapods.org/pods/GitPodTextSDK

👍 Tell your friends!

➜ GitPodTextSDK git:(1.0.1) pod repo update
Updating spec repo master

CocoaPods 1.2.0.beta.1 is available.
To update use: sudo gem install cocoapods --pre
[!] This is a test version we'd love you to try.

For more information, see https://blog.cocoapods.org and the CHANGELOG for this version at https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/releases/tag/1.2.0.beta.1

➜ GitPodTextSDK git:(1.0.1) pod search GitPodTextSDK
[!] Unable to find a pod with name, author, summary, or description matching GitPodTextSDK

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linmingzhi on 23 Dec 2016

jasonmerino on 24 Oct 2017

👍15 😕1

As an FYI for others: if your source points to a .zip using the http: option in the .podspec, you need to ensure the .zip file includes a copy of the LICENSE file.

e.g.

s.source = { :http => "https://github.com/iwasrobbed/MyAwesomeLibrary/releases/download/v#{s.version.to_s}/MyAwesomeLibrary.zip" }

CocoaPods doesn't care if the license file is included in the repo root (like it does when you use git: as a source); it needs to be included when the source gets unzipped.

iwasrobbed-ks on 30 Jul 2018

👍6

makes sense. The file is being downloaded instead of cloning a git repo because thats what the source is.

dnkoutso on 30 Jul 2018

👍1

For anyone that may run across this later, I had this issue with the Lookback pod, but none of my coworkers did. What fixed it for me was just removing all the installed pods and reinstalling them. This was after a pod cache clean --all and pod install which did not resolve the issue.

It's work for me,thanks