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There is precedent for declaring a "magic file name" in a license. We've seen Suppfile.txt
, license.txt
, NOTICES
, lrgrwrks.txt
, the_framework_license.txt
, manifest.txt
, EXCEPTION
, and so on.
The Linux kernel keeps a CREDITS
file.
But none of those file conventions have caught on as general conventions. There is still no reliable uniformity in which file contains the license terms to begin with, or if they appear in a file at all.
The @polyformproject does something a bit more generic, for notices:
Notices
You must ensure that anyone who gets a copy of any part of the software from you also gets a copy of these terms or the URL for them above, as well as copies of any plain-text lines beginning with
Required Notice:
that the licensor provided with the software. For example:Required Notice: Copyright Yoyodyne, Inc. (http://example.com)
Polyform doesn't expect its own magic file, or files at all. That's far more technology-independent.
I won't pretend they're used uniformly, but a number of package managers already have well established metadata fields for author and contributor names. I'm not sure I want to pick a fight with existing conventions for expressing the same information, for largely the same reason. But I would like to offer more uniformity than "do what you know".
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The file I've seen most often is AUTHORS
.
- https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/authors/
- https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Recording-Contributors.html
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