On Sep 10, 2015 2:07 PM, "Christopher" <[email protected]> wrote: >
> > However, I don't know where the "willful copyright infringement" comes > from. Omission of the LICENSE/NOTICE files is not necessarily an infringing > activity. They are acknowledgments/disclaimers of the legal status of the > code we use. As such, they do not generally change the rights we have to > redistribute under their respective licenses. They simply communicate them. > So, I think that part was a bit of hyperbole. > The bloomfilter code is included under a license that includes requirements about notifying where it came from. In the binary jar for accumulo-core we include no such notice about the provenance or copyright. That invalidates the license, which means we'd be distributing the work without a license in violation of the original authors' copyrights.
