Install Android OpenSource license file

[anatol]

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[anatol]

Yes it should be licenses. Rebased on the latest master. PTAL.

[anatol]

On a related note, could you please add a license for nmeum/android-tools project itself? So it can be installed to the same directory.

[nmeum]

On a related note, could you please add a license for nmeum/android-tools project itself? So it can be installed to the same directory.

Yes, I would like to do that. The problem is that the repository contains code written by different people (see the author metadata in the git format patches), my understanding is that adding a license retrospectively would require these people to agree with it. Not sure what would be the best approach to do that. Suggestions welcome.

[anatol]

Thanks for merging it.

As of relicencing - I do not really know, I am not a lawyer.

But I see 2 ways to interpret this situation:

1. currently the android-tools cmake code is unlicensed i.e. there are no any agreement between the project owner (you) and the contributors. Anyone can do with these contributions anything they want, including relicensing.
2. if you want to go a safer way you can create a ticket saying that you want to relicense the project and ask all contributors to give an agreement to relicense their changes. If some contributors did not provide the agreement then those changes need to be reimplemented/redone.

For the license type it would probably make sense to use the same as the Android upstream - Apache 2.

[nmeum]

Hm, the file has been removed in platform-tools-31.0.2 (see #30). Also: I think this is a bit more complicated in practice since not all bundled submodules are licensed under Apache-2.0. For instance, vendor/e2fsprogs is partially under GPLv2. Not sure what the proper way to proceed here is. We could attempt to install all NOTICE files found in ./vendor/**/NOTICE 🤔