Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 12:02:03 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > This should be useful: > > https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-media
Yes, I read that earlier. Unfortunately, it's quote vague, incomplete information. Plus Open Office files might not count as "media" files. Now, obviously, no user of us cares, not even contributors do. I just don't want to get into trouble by arbitrarily removing that part from the LICENSE file. > Jacopo > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote: > >> 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/2405e61bde8a2d8f74f7ba598b4e1b >> 8ed1e244c1/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 >> >> -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
