Andy Wingo <[email protected]> writes:
> More concretely... if this is necessary (and I suspect but don't know
> that it is,) probably the easiest thing would be for each package to
> install a copyright file in its output derivations. Then a "guix pack"
> would include them automatically. It would be good to symlink/dedup
> common copyright files of course, but that can be a later step.
>
> Andy
Exactly (for generalized values of "a copyright file" unless you
amalgamate multiple ones like Debian does). There's a limit to simple
deduplication if "this notice" that you need to ship includes a
copyright notice as well as the licence text ("Copyright 2017 Fred
Bloggs ...").