Stamatis>it seems that a single LICENCE Stamatis>file with some separator is very common
I'm not that sure. For instance, in JMeter we have ~1MiB of license texts. Having that "with some separator" would probably be more like a torture for the reader. Stamatis>Lucene That is an interesting example. Here's a binary download url: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/lucene/java/8.1.1/lucene-8.1.1.tgz Their LICENSE is 24KiB (Apache-2.0 is ~11KiB) Then they have "/licenses/" folder that contains license texts as follows: asm-commons-5.1.jar.sha1 asm-commons-LICENSE-BSD_LIKE.txt asm-commons-NOTICE.txt antlr4-runtime-4.5.1-1.jar.sha1 antlr4-runtime-LICENSE-BSD.txt antlr4-runtime-NOTICE.txt httpclient-4.5.6.jar.sha1 httpclient-LICENSE-ASL.txt httpclient-NOTICE.txt and so on. *.sha1 contain checksums for the jars (not for the licenses) ASF / BSD_LIKE seems to be a classification of their choice. Vladimir