NOTE: I'm planning to cut a new release as soon as this commit is merged. It's been a while since we released, let's do so shortly.

Thanks for working on this, @filbranden!

Would it make sense to break out this section from the README as a license file as well?

Also noticed the manpages appear to be under The "Verbatim" License. Not sure if that should be included as a separate file too, but figured it was worth raising for discussion.

Would it make sense to break out this section from the README as a license file as well?

No, I don't think so. The section in README explains which files are covered by which license. That's where that information should be. The LICENSE.* files are simply an unmodified copy of the full license text and that's it.

Also noticed the manpages appear to be under The "Verbatim" License. Not sure if that should be included as a separate file too, but figured it was worth raising for discussion.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I wouldn't touch that now, actually. For compliance reasons, those files already include the full license text, so you can find it there.

I think we might end up simplifying that by relicensing them under the LGPL as well. (In a follow up step.)

I would like to follow up and add SPDX headers to the files to simplify compliance even further. At that point, we might want to bring this up again and possibly relicense them.

@andikleen If you don't have any strong objections, I would like to get this PR merged.

Once this one is in, I'd like to do release a new package.

Cheers!
Filipe

Friendly ping @andikleen

Yes it's ok for me. Sorry for the delay.

Thanks @filbranden! 😀