Licensing: added NOTICE

The NOTICE clearly exhibits the licensing terms of the original work
on top of which this library is built.

Replaced older licensing text by SPDX license identifiers in README and source files.

Signed-off-by: Frederic BIDON <[email protected]>

Author: fredbi

.github/workflows/go-test.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ on:
 
   pull_request:
 
+permissions:
+  pull-requests: read
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   lint:
     name: Lint

LICENSE

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
                                  Apache License
                            Version 2.0, January 2004
                         http://www.apache.org/licenses/

NOTICE

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Copyright 2015-2025 go-swagger maintainers
+
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2015-2025 go-swagger maintainers
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+This software library, github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer, includes software developed
+by the go-swagger and go-openapi maintainers ("go-swagger maintainers").
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this software except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+This software is copied from, derived from, and inspired by other original software products.
+It ships with copies of other software which license terms are recalled below.
+
+The original sofware was authored on 25-02-2013 by sigu-399 (https://github.com/sigu-399, [email protected]).
+
+github.com/sigh-399/jsonpointer
+===========================
+
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2013 sigu-399 ( https://github.com/sigu-399 )
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+Copyright 2013 sigu-399 ( https://github.com/sigu-399 )
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.

README.md

@@ -8,19 +8,27 @@
 An implementation of JSON Pointer - Go language
 
 ## Status
-Completed YES
 
-Tested YES
+API is stable.
 
 ## References
 
 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-pointer-07>
 
 also known as [RFC6901](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6901)
 
-### Note
+## Licensing
 
-The 4.Evaluation part of the previous reference, starting with 'If the currently referenced value is a JSON array, the reference token MUST contain either...' is not implemented.
+This library ships under the [SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0](./LICENSE).
 
-That is because our implementation of the JSON pointer only supports explicit references to array elements: the provision in the spec
-to resolve non-existent members as "the last element in the array", using the special trailing character "-".
+See the license [NOTICE](./NOTICE), which recalls the licensing terms of all the pieces of software 
+on top of which it has been built.
+
+## Limitations
+
+The 4.Evaluation part of the previous reference, starting with 'If the currently referenced value is a JSON array,
+the reference token MUST contain either...' is not implemented.
+
+That is because our implementation of the JSON pointer only supports explicit references to array elements:
+the provision in the spec to resolve non-existent members as "the last element in the array",
+using the special trailing character "-".

errors.go

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2015-2025 go-swagger maintainers
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
 package jsonpointer
 
 type pointerError string

pointer.go

@@ -1,28 +1,7 @@
-// Copyright 2013 sigu-399 ( https://github.com/sigu-399 )
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-// author       sigu-399
-// author-github  https://github.com/sigu-399
-// author-mail    [email protected]
-//
-// repository-name  jsonpointer
-// repository-desc  An implementation of JSON Pointer - Go language
-//
-// description    Main and unique file.
-//
-// created        25-02-2013
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2015-2025 go-swagger maintainers
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+// Package jsonpointer provides a golang implementation for json pointers.
 package jsonpointer
 
 import (

pointer_test.go

@@ -1,27 +1,5 @@
-// Copyright 2013 sigu-399 ( https://github.com/sigu-399 )
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-// author       sigu-399
-// author-github  https://github.com/sigu-399
-// author-mail    [email protected]
-//
-// repository-name  jsonpointer
-// repository-desc  An implementation of JSON Pointer - Go language
-//
-// description    Automated tests on package.
-//
-// created        03-03-2013
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2015-2025 go-swagger maintainers
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 package jsonpointer