Tag: missing-notice-file-for-apache-license
Severity: error
Check: debian/copyright/apache-notice
Explanation: The package appears to be licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and
a NOTICE
file (or similar) exists in the source tree. However, no
files called NOTICE
or NOTICE.txt
are installed in any
of the binary packages.
.
The Apache 2.0 license requires distributing of such files:
.
(d) If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its
distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must
include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained
within such NOTICE file [..]
.
Please include the file in your package, for example by adding
path/to/NOTICE
to a debian/package.docs
file.
See-Also: /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0