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by Uehreka 271 days ago
I think it might be the case that licenses often include the authors’ names in the “this code is copyright of so-and-so” (as you can see, I Am Not A Lawyer) section, which might be considered part of the text of the license, thereby making it a requirement to include the full license text for each dependency.
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notpushkin 271 days ago
It’s usually done in MIT-like licenses, which are quite short.

But I’d argue that replacing it with

    Copyright (c) 207X Jonathan Fenimore
    Licensed MIT, see the license text below
or even

    Copyright (c) 207X Jonathan Fenimore
    SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
should be enough, but IANAL too.

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In longer licenses like GPL or Apache, you are not supposed to change any copyright statement placeholders. For example, there’s this line in the GPL text:

    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
But it’s a part of the “How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs” section. You are supposed to copy it into your code and fill it out there instead.

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Or they could just compress the license amalgamation! I think it would be a bit bigger but pretty reasonable, and their lawyers should be happy with this arrangement.

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