question regarding the information to be provided in case of files containing a license text

2014-07-29 Thread Fendt, Oliver
Hi all, sorry for the cryptic subject, but perhaps you can help me. When doing package analysis with FOSSology or other tools we often find files which contain a license text (e.g. usually the file COPYING contains the text of the GPL) my question is what kind of value has to be provided in

Re: question regarding the information to be provided in case of files containing a license text

2014-07-29 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi Oliver, If I understand the scenario you describe below (which I’d agree is quite common), which is: you have a COPYING.txt file at the top-level directory that contains the full text of a license, in this case, GPL-3.0; and then you have a bunch of files in sub-directories that have no