Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s

2015-09-28 Thread Richard Hillegas
> > Date: 09/25/2015 07:21 PM > Subject: Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s > > Work underway at ... > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-10833 > https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/8919 > > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:54

Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s

2015-09-25 Thread Steve Loughran
> On 24 Sep 2015, at 21:11, Sean Owen wrote: > > Yes, but the ASF's reading seems to be clear: > http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps > "In LICENSE, add a pointer to the dependency's license within the > source tree and a short note summarizing its

Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s

2015-09-25 Thread Sean Owen
Update: I *think* the conclusion was indeed that nothing needs to happen with NOTICE. However, along the way in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-226 it emerged that the BSD/MIT licenses should be inlined into LICENSE (or copied in the distro somewhere). I can get on that -- just some

Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s

2015-09-25 Thread Sean Owen
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: > regarding the spark one, I don't see that you need to refer to transitive > dependencies for the non-binary distros, and, for any binaries, to bother > listing the licensing of all the ASF dependencies. Things

Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s

2015-09-24 Thread Richard Hillegas
Thanks for forking the new email thread, Reynold. It is entirely possible that I am being overly skittish. I have posed a question for our legal experts: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-226 To answer Sean's question on the previous email thread, I would propose making changes like

Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s

2015-09-24 Thread Sean Owen
Have a look at http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#mod-notice though, which makes a good point about limiting what goes into NOTICE to what is required. That's what makes me think we shouldn't do this. On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Richard Hillegas wrote: > To

Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s

2015-09-24 Thread Sean Owen
t; <dev@spark.apache.org> >> Date: 09/24/2015 12:08 PM >> Subject: Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s > > >> >> Have a look at http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#mod-notice >> though, which makes a good point about limi

Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s

2015-09-24 Thread Richard Hillegas
12:08 PM > Subject: Re: [Discuss] NOTICE file for transitive "NOTICE"s > > Have a look at http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#mod-notice > though, which makes a good point about limiting what goes into NOTICE > to what is required. That's what makes me think w