-1. Having correct licences is more important than even having code that compiles (at release time).
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
