slachiewicz opened a new pull request, #3828:
URL: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/3828

   LICENSE attributes `lib/erl/src/Makefile.am` to the MIT License. That file 
held otp-base build boilerplate and was removed by THRIFT-892 when the Erlang 
library moved to rebar, so the entry has been pointing at nothing the 
distribution ships — and the path it cites, `doc/otp-base-license.txt`, is 
wrong as well; the text lives under `doc/licenses/`.
   
   `debian/copyright` carries the same block naming `lib/erl/Makefile.am`. That 
file exists but has always carried the standard ASF header, so the MIT claim 
never applied to it. THRIFT-5196 asked which licence governs the Erlang 
makefile — the answer is Apache 2.0, and this pair is what made it ambiguous.
   
   No otp-base derived content remains anywhere in the tree, which leaves 
`doc/licenses/otp-base-license.txt` unreferenced; it goes with the two blocks. 
Say the word if you would rather keep the text file and I will restore it.
   
   Verified: `grep -rn otp-base` over the tree → no matches after the change.
   
   *This change was created with AI assistance.*


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