On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <[email protected]> wrote: > Bertrand wrote: >> 5) Is the notice in ext.org.json.simple/NOTICE.txt really required? >> Unless I missed something, http://code.google.com/p/json-simple/ >> doesn't seem to require it. > Isn't it just good practice to indicate the source of copyright owner > of included code in NOTICE.txt? The json simple one seems > unnecessarily verbose though.
No, the NOTICE file should only list *required* notices, as it puts a burden on whoever might redistribute the code. So if you have some cleanup to do anyway, you could minimize that one unless what's in there is required. See http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice -Bertrand
