Follow-up Comment #14, task #16658 (group administration):

[comment #13 comment #13:]
> [comment #12 comment #12:]
>>> Copyrightable text files should include copyright and license notices
>>> themselves.
>> 
>> Custom additions to the top of these files are not preserved.
>> 
>> To be clear, the generation of these files is not a one-time initialization
>> thing.
> 
> Then you can generate them so that they be preserved.

There is no such option.

>> No, their licenses may not be ignored. They are specified in REUSE.toml.
>> Those libraries are not external dependencies, but rather inside of the Rust
>> repository. "N/A" is how the cargo-license tool indicates that the "license"
>> field is not listed in a library's Cargo.toml file.
> 
> Then they need checking in order to understand the licensing terms of the
> package in quiestion, needn't they?

These are the licenses used for packages inside of the Rust repository:
Apache-2.0, "MIT" (terms of Expat, not X11), Unicode-3.0, BSD-2-Clause,
OFL-1.1

Regarding the OFL confusion, I have now read the text of that license and
concluded that it's not a problem.


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