Is there a lawyer that approves the Go releases? I think their input would be best for this.

@pciet, yes, we have a lawyer and have talked to them.

@bradfitz Can I work on this issue.

What I understood from above description is, we have to traverse each package/folder from go repository and collect all the LICENSE/NOTICE files and append it into a top level LICENSE/NOTICE file.

I've done some work on this since GopherCon, and I'm probably at least 90% of the way done, but I need some clarification. @bradfitz, just a couple questions:

1. This issue is on the golang repo, but it sounds like it should actually be against https://github.com/golang/build? Just making sure.

2. When you say:

We'd also need to make such NOTICE files for each directory where the notice is currently in the source code at the top.

Do you mean that all directories in src need to be recursively walked for source files that match something like (?i)^\s*copyright, and that this line should be extracted?

3. There are no NOTICE files in the golang source tree. LICENSE files only. Just want to make sure I'm not missing anything.

4. I've currently written it to compact multiple, identical notices using a hash behind the scenes. This way, multiple licenses with the same contents will appear something like this:

src/bar/foo/LICENSE,
src/foo/LICENSE:
--------------------------------------------------
License text lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed in vehicula urna.
Proin feugiat varius cursus. Integer felis tellus, bibendum ut justo id, pellentesque eleifend turpis.
Nulla quis neque ac purus finibus egestas in rhoncus metus. Ut lobortis neque a mattis mattis.

Does that work for you?

5. Wasn't quite sure what I should be looking for in the Debian package. I didn't find anything in there worth noting, but I might have missed it.