Lintian tag: missing-notice-file-for-apache-license

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The package appears to be licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and a
NOTICE file (or similar) exists in the source tree. However, no files
called NOTICE or NOTICE.txt are installed in any of the binary packages.

The Apache 2.0 license requires distributing of such files:

(d) If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its
distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must
include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained
within such NOTICE file [..]

Please include the file in your package, for example by adding
path/to/NOTICE to a debian/package.docs file.

Please refer to usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0 for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/copyright/apache-notice

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