The fat CI AppImage (.github/workflows/appimage-publish.yml) redistributes FreeRDP + Podman + podman-compose and their helpers, so each component's license / NOTICE text must travel inside the image.

These texts are vendored here rather than read off the built container's filesystem. The fedora:41 image installs with tsflags=nodocs, which strips /usr/share/licenses, and every attempt to defeat that on the GitHub runner (editing dnf.conf, --setopt=tsflags=, --setopt=keepcache=1 + rpm2cpio, a second dnf download) silently produced nothing — even though each works in a local fedora:41 of the identical image digest. Vendoring the texts removes that CI dependency entirely and makes the redistribution obligation impossible to regress silently (the workflow fail-closes if a required dir is absent).

Provenance

Harvested verbatim from the Fedora 41 rpm payloads:

dir	package	license
`podman/`	podman	Apache-2.0 (+ `modules.txt`)
`freerdp-libs/`	freerdp-libs	Apache-2.0 / HPND / LGPL-2.1 / OFL-1.1
`libwinpr/`	libwinpr	(FreeRDP stack)
`podman-compose/`	podman-compose	GPL-2.0-only (from the wheel dist-info)
`conmon/`	conmon	Apache-2.0
`crun/`	crun	`COPYING`
`netavark/`	netavark	+ `LICENSE.dependencies`, `cargo-vendor.txt`
`passt/`	passt	BSD-3-Clause + GPL-2.0-or-later
`slirp4netns/`	slirp4netns	`COPYING`

podman, freerdp-libs, libwinpr, podman-compose are required (the build fails closed without them); the rest are best-effort.

Refreshing (when bumping the bundled Fedora package versions)

docker run --rm fedora:41 bash -c '
  dnf install -y -q --setopt=install_weak_deps=False cpio
  h=$(mktemp -d); cd "$h"
  dnf download --setopt=install_weak_deps=False \
    podman freerdp-libs libwinpr conmon crun netavark passt slirp4netns
  for r in *.x86_64.rpm *.noarch.rpm; do rpm2cpio "$r" | cpio -idmu --quiet; done
  cd ./usr/share/licenses && tar -cf - .
' > /tmp/licenses.tar
tar -xf /tmp/licenses.tar -C packaging/appimage/licenses

# podman-compose GPL-2.0 (lives in the wheel dist-info, not /usr/share/licenses):
docker run --rm fedora:41 bash -c '
  dnf install -y -q podman-compose
  cat /usr/lib/python3*/site-packages/podman_compose-*.dist-info/LICENSE
' > packaging/appimage/licenses/podman-compose/LICENSE