PKGBUILD licensing

[noraj]

After reading AL news, I started to check what was our licensing for PKGBUILD.

All our PKGBUILDs have this mention:

# This file is part of BlackArch Linux ( https://www.blackarch.org/ ).
# See COPYING for license details.

COPYING

It contains this sentence:

The list of authors (AUTHORS) must be distributed in its original form with all redistributions of the source code.

The issue is, we don't have a AUTHORS file anymore since 2014 as we track contributors via git.

COPYING seems to be BSD 3-Clause License unless there is the previously mentioned sentence added to the list of conditions.

Since we don't plan to add an AUTHORS file, we should remove this line.

[D3vil0p3r]

At the state of the art, I think it is better that line will be removed because now it has not value. If needed, it could be re-added in the future.

Since AL agreed to move to 0BSD license, what if you re-create the COPYING file by using 0BSD GitHub license template so, when a user clicks on it, he/she can have a summarized view like:

as occurs, for example, on Nixpkgs (MIT licensed).

0BSD is not shown directly on the GitHub License template list but you can create it on BlackArch repo by https://github.com/BlackArch/blackarch/community/license/new?branch=main&filename=COPYING&template=0bsd