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I was put off releasing a pre-built docker image for an open source project, mainly due to mess of licenses that is Docker.
I finally decided to do it by doing the following (for a Python-based application):
* Create a LICENSE.third-party file, containing information about where to find LICENSES for the installed third-party applications (https://github.com/MatthewJohn/terrareg/blob/main/LICENSE.third-party)
* Use pip-licenses to generate per-package license files for each of the installed pip packages (https://github.com/MatthewJohn/terrareg/blob/main/Dockerfile#L77)
* Copied all 'doc' license files from deb packages to common directory (https://github.com/MatthewJohn/terrareg/blob/main/Dockerfile#L80C1-L80C173)
* Manually copy licenses for tooling that is installed in the Docker build (https://github.com/MatthewJohn/terrareg/blob/main/Dockerfile#L82)
I'm wondering if anyone else has tackled this and/or seen it done anywhere else?
How have others implemented anything similar?
Thanks! :)