Publishing the copyrights and licenses of the third party libraries
#22,874 opened on Aug 29, 2022
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Description
Some of the third party libraries that Envoy uses have license terms that demand that the copyright or the license itself is included in the software and/or documentation.
For example, the nghttp2 library uses the MIT license. It contains this sentence: "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to [...], subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."
How does Envoy comply with this legal requirement?
I think the copyright notice and the license of nghttp2 (and other third-party libraries) should appear somewhere in Envoy's documentation. There is already a table that lists all third-party libraries. A similar table that contains a list of the external dependencies, their licenses and (if necessary) also the complete license texts would solve this problem.