[Question]Guide on Licensing for Build Artifacts

[mochimochiki]

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I believe it's fantastic that flet build can generate executable files for each operating system. When considering the scenario of "distributing" these executable files, there are numerous dependent modules that should be distributed along with the artifacts. For instance, if I generate an exe using flet build windows, the distribution of flutter_windows.dll and vcruntime140.dll and etc... is necessary for its execution. Additionally, proper licensing documentation (in some cases, source code) for flet and any additional dependent packages is essential. While compliance with licenses is the responsibility of the developer, having a guide can be immensely helpful. It seems like Kivy has prepared a guide on Package licensing. For instance, I am unsure which among the packages installed alongside flet will actually be "distributed" with the artifacts. Below is the result of pip-licenses immediately after installing flet v0.19.0. The licenses to adhere to may vary depending on the packages that are "distributed" (e.g., text-unidecode or chardet).

pip-licenses results

Name                   Version          License
arrow                  1.3.0            Apache Software License
flet                   0.19.0           Apache Software License
flet-core              0.19.0           Apache Software License
flet-runtime           0.19.0           Apache Software License
requests               2.31.0           Apache Software License
types-python-dateutil  2.8.19.20240106  Apache Software License
watchdog               3.0.0            Apache Software License
websocket-client       1.7.0            Apache Software License
packaging              23.2             Apache Software License; BSD License
python-dateutil        2.8.2            Apache Software License; BSD License
sniffio                1.3.0            Apache Software License; MIT License
text-unidecode         1.3              Artistic License; GNU General Public License (GPL); GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
Jinja2                 3.1.3            BSD License
MarkupSafe             2.1.5            BSD License
Pygments               2.17.2           BSD License
binaryornot            0.4.4            BSD License
click                  8.1.7            BSD License
colorama               0.4.6            BSD License
cookiecutter           2.5.0            BSD License
httpcore               0.17.3           BSD License
httpx                  0.24.1           BSD License
idna                   3.6              BSD License
oauthlib               3.2.2            BSD License
qrcode                 7.4.2            BSD License
websockets             11.0.3           BSD License
chardet                5.2.0            GNU Lesser General Public License v2 or later (LGPLv2+)
PyYAML                 6.0.1            MIT License
anyio                  4.2.0            MIT License
charset-normalizer     3.3.2            MIT License
h11                    0.14.0           MIT License
markdown-it-py         3.0.0            MIT License
mdurl                  0.1.2            MIT License
pipdeptree             2.13.2           MIT License
pypng                  0.20220715.0     MIT License
python-slugify         8.0.4            MIT License
repath                 0.9.0            MIT License
rich                   13.7.0           MIT License
six                    1.16.0           MIT License
urllib3                2.2.0            MIT License
certifi                2024.2.2         Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)
typing_extensions      4.9.0            Python Software Foundation License

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