put license file at module root

[jba]

The Go package discovery service, https://pkg.go.dev, looks for a redistributable license at the root of a module to determine whether it can display the README and documentation for the module.

Although there is an acceptable license file at the repo root, there isn't one at the module root, in the go/arrow directory.

Please copy the LICENSE.txt file from the repo root to the go/arrow directory.

[wesm]

Would a symlink work?

[jba]

It doesn't work at present. I filed the issue linked above.

Whatever the resolution of that issue, nothing will happen soon (Go is just beginning a 6-month release cycle), so maybe you could copy temporarily.

[jba]

golang/go#39417 was closed with an explanation of why symlinks can never happen. It suggests one alternative to making the copy, which is renaming the file at root to LICENSE.