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x/build/cmd/relui: collect open source NOTICES into top-level NOTICES file?

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#25,405 opened on May 15, 2018

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We should probably make x/build/cmd/release collecting all the misc LICENSE/NOTICE files from the packages we depend on and concatenate them all together into one top-level NOTICES file next to our LICENSE file in Go's release.

We'd also need to make such NOTICE files for each directory where the notice is currently in the source code at the top.

Look at Debian's packaging of Go to find the list.

/cc @rsc @FiloSottile @ianlancetaylor @andybons @bcmills

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Examine Debian's packaging of Go to find the list of dependency NOTICE files and determine how to concatenate them into a top level NOTICES file in the Go release.
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