License: surface bundled JS dependencies in wheel's LICENSE rather than only the webpack-generated LICENSE.txt

[elijahbenizzy]

Raised by Jarek Potiuk during the 0.42.0-incubating RC3 PPMC review. Non-blocking for the release.

Issue

The wheel ships the built React UI under burr/tracking/server/build/. That bundle (~1.7 MB total) embeds many third-party npm packages (React, react-router, lodash, the Magic UI runtime deps, etc.). Their license terms are documented in burr/tracking/server/build/static/js/main.<hash>.js.LICENSE.txt — which is webpack's auto-generated comment-banner aggregation.

That file is technically present and machine-readable, but it's not surfaced anywhere a typical license auditor would look: the wheel's top-level LICENSE-wheel does not reference it, and there's no dist-info/licenses/ entry for the bundled deps.

What's expected for ASF wheels

Apache release policy expects all bundled dependencies to be enumerated in the project's LICENSE / NOTICE in some form, even if the underlying license file is shipped separately. The current state passes RAT (we exclude *.js), but is fragile to a strict licensing review.

Suggested fix

One of:

1. Have the release script copy burr/tracking/server/build/static/js/main.*.js.LICENSE.txt into dist-info/licenses/LICENSE-bundled-js.txt during wheel build, AND add a one-line pointer in LICENSE-wheel pointing readers to that file.
2. Pre-process the webpack output to extract a deduplicated, sorted, top-level LICENSE-bundled-js.txt that's appended to LICENSE-wheel directly.
3. Vendor a static LICENSE-bundled-js.txt listing the npm deps + their licenses, and verify it stays in sync via CI.

Option 1 is the lowest-effort and survives webpack hash changes automatically.

References

• PPMC vote thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@burr.apache.org/msg00127.html
• The auto-generated file in question: burr/tracking/server/build/static/js/main.<hash>.js.LICENSE.txt (present in every wheel build)

[hussain-s]

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