#17376·netty

Please include a LICENSE.txt in released jars

Author: krismasseyCreated Sep 1, 2026Updated Sep 12, 2026

Issue

The released netty jars do not contain a valid LICENCE.txt file, this is causing issues with licence policy gates (Identified using GitLab) This required manual tracking of the licences which creates an overhead.

Details

The issue was identified when scanning and blocking for unknown licences the dependencies blow were initially identified, but it appears to be a global issues.

Identified dependencies with no licence file io.netty/netty-codec-base, io.netty/netty-codec-classes-quic, io.netty/netty-codec-compression, io.netty/netty-codec-http3, io.netty/netty-codec-marshalling, io.netty/netty-codec-native-quic, io.netty/netty-codec-protobuf

Expected behavior

Released Jars contain a valid LICENCE.txt file