Distribution instructions are in violation of your licensing terms

[thesmart]

Hi, many thanks for writing this excellent tool.

Just thought you might want to consider, your README.md mentions:

# Download the script and save it to /usr/local/bin
wget -O /usr/local/bin/semver \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fsaintjacques/semver-tool/master/src/semver

But the source file doesn't include attribution or license terms, which are required by the Apache v2.0 terms you selected. This immediately leads your users into violating the terms of your license. May want to include a comment header w/ copyright, terms, etc. or change the license to one that doesn't require attribution.

[thesmart]

Nothing to do with this issue, but just wanted you to know that I released a fully POSIX-compliant fork of this repository:
https://github.com/thesmart/semver-tool-posix

Standing on the shoulders of giants, thank you.

[ranger6]

Thanks for the heads-up. I guess it would be a good idea to add copyright notices and license references. Keeps the lawyers and automatic checkers happy: less friction. Having been in a corporate setting where any use of open source requires vetting of said software by an open source control board, the less friction the better. We already changed to the Apache license some years ago to help our poor customers.

Just as an interesting note, it's not clear to me that the license requires that we put attribution information anywhere. The license requires that if such information exists, it must be redistributed. But again: less friction is better!

[thesmart]

LOL! Maybe my bad then. Thanks for the consideration. ❤️

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