[PATCH] Remove the LICENSES file

[Florian Weimer]

* Florian Weimer:

> All the information contained in the file is also available in the
> corresponding source files, but the converse it is not true.  In
> general, the years in the copyright notices vary from one source file
> to the next, so reproducing the notices found in the LICENSES only
> does not obviously comply with the requirement that “Redistributions
> in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice”.  This
> contradicts counter the goal of the LICENSES file, which says right at
> the start that it is expected to serve as a replacement of all the
> copyright notices in the source tree.
>
> Rather than augmenting the LICENSES files with all small copyright
> notice variations found in the source tree, this commit simply delete
> it.  Those who want to distribute compiled versions of glibc without
> full corresponding source code shoild perform their own license
> analysis to determine which parts of the sources they need to cite to
> comply with notice requirements.  This avoids an ongoing upstream
> maintenance burden, keeping the LICENSES file in sync with the rest of
> the source tree.

I've contacted the FSF about this proposed change.

Thanks,
Florian