Bug#885042: Check inclusion of Apache 2.0 NOTICE files
Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> writes:
> There is some irony on having a warning about license.txt that shouldn't
> be in the binary copyright (because "all license information should be
> collected in the debian/copyright file") but an error when we don't copy
> the notice file.
Yeah, this provision of the Apache 2.0 license is a little weird, and I
get the impression it doesn't register with people as much as it should.
A bit like the GPL requirement to keep a changelog, which I see violated
all over the place. (Including probably occasionally in Debian, although
normal Debian best practices with debian/changelog would satisfy it.)
Free software licenses have a lot more restrictions and specific
requirements than a lot of people realize they do, and there are a *lot*
of technical violations of free software licenses out there.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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