Licensing issues

[steveklabnik]

in this comment @briansmith mentions that docs.rs isn't following licenses properly.

https://github.com/briansmith/ring/blob/master/LICENSE is *ring*'s license.

I would imagine that it'd be a good idea to turn off generation for any crate that has something like this in its Cargo.toml.

[onur]

I've been reading LICENSE of ring since @briansmith mentioned.

I am not sure how docs.rs is breaking license terms of ring. docs.rs is also hosting a copy of LICENSE. AFAIK ISC license is similar to MIT and simplified BSD licenses.

[steveklabnik]

I'm not sure either, but I still think this is a good idea overall.

[briansmith]

docs.rs is also hosting a copy of LICENSE.

I see. For some reason I'd overlooked it.

[briansmith]

I'm not sure either, but I still think this is a good idea overall.

I think, at a minimum, it's a good idea to more prominently display or link to the license, ideally near where "Author" is displayed.

I think there's a broader issue of whether MIT, Apache, ISC, and other licenses require the copyright notice and license in each .rs file to be copied into the HTML, especially when the copyright notices in the .rs files aren't all uniform (e.g. different copyright holders) and/or when they are different from what's in the LICENSE file. Note, in particular, the top line of the ring LICENSE file.

[Kixiron]

Triage: This could be part of #740 as templates are passed license files so a License tab could be made that renders the given crate's license