Please bundle LICENSE/NOTICE files in the produced jar files #281

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claunia · 2026-01-29T20:41:21Z

claunia commented

2026-01-29 20:41:21 +00:00

Originally created by @vlsi on GitHub (Jun 17, 2019).

It would be nice if you could add LICENSE to META-INF/LICENSE , so the license could be automatically discovered.

Clarification: brotli license enforces re-distributions to reproduce license text, and it is hard to tell which license text should be associated with the jar since the text might vary over time.

The ...jar is often re-distributed via Maven dependency, thus it becomes complicated to automatically re-distribute the proper LICENSE file since Maven Central misses that file.

Solution: include META-INF/LICENSE into the generated jar file. You might want to optionally include META-INF/NOTICE as well

Originally created by @vlsi on GitHub (Jun 17, 2019). It would be nice if you could add LICENSE to META-INF/LICENSE , so the license could be automatically discovered. Clarification: brotli license enforces re-distributions to reproduce license text, and it is hard to tell which license text should be associated with the jar since the text might vary over time. The ...jar is often re-distributed via Maven dependency, thus it becomes complicated to automatically re-distribute the proper LICENSE file since Maven Central misses that file. Solution: include META-INF/LICENSE into the generated jar file. You might want to optionally include META-INF/NOTICE as well

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Reference: starred/brotli#281