It's a basic "legal" question... maybe I'm blind, but couldn't find a
definitive answer, so I'm a worried to act without the blessing of
others.

We got some binaries in the source code, which were created at the
FreeMarker project, and technically can't have a source code:

  src/main/misc/overloadedNumberRules/prices.ods
  src/manual/en_US/docgen-originals/figures/overview.odg
  src/manual/en_US/docgen-originals/figures/model2sketch_with_alpha.png
  src/manual/en_US/docgen-originals/figures/tree_with_alpha.png
  src/manual/en_US/favicon.png
  src/manual/en_US/figures/model2sketch.png
  src/manual/en_US/figures/overview.png
  src/manual/en_US/figures/tree.png
  src/manual/en_US/logo.png
  src/manual/zh_CN/favicon.png
  src/manual/zh_CN/figures/model2sketch.png
  src/manual/zh_CN/figures/overview.png
  src/manual/zh_CN/figures/tree.png
  src/manual/zh_CN/logo.png

Because they are binaries, they have no copyright header, which, at
least in some heads (on the Incubator list back then), leads to
uncertainty regarding their origin and license. I would think that if
I say nothing, then it's implied that the LICENSE at the root applies.
But, to make that explicit, currently we have a footnote in the LICENSE:

https://github.com/apache/freemarker/blob/2405e61bde8a2d8f74f7ba598b4e1b8ed1e244c1/LICENSE

I have looked at some TLP-s back then, and saw that they state nothing
about the images (that they have produced, hopefully). So that must be
acceptable. Not sure why OpenOffice files would be different then.
Anyway, I really would like to get rid of any "footnotes" from LICENSE
(or NOTICE). Can I?

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany

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