Apache Licenses

At the bottom fo the Apache 2.0 License file, there’s an appendix:

APPENDIX: How to apply the Apache License to your work.

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Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]

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Does that look like an invitation to fill in the blanks to you? It sure does to me, and has for others in the Rust community as well.

Today I was doing some licensing housekeeping and made the same embarrassing mistake.

This is a PSA to double check whether inviting blanks are part of the appendix before filling them out in Apache license texts.

http://edunham.net/2015/08/28/apache_licenses.html