Hi, I was taking a look at this release candidate and noticed a number of things from a licensing compliance point of view the set a little odd. Now there may be some history here that I'm unaware of and a good reason why things are like this. I can see: - The LICENSE files include things that are not in the release but are dependancies [1] this shouldn't be mentioned in the LICNSE file. - A large number of headers have "licensed to the ASF" but include a copyright line, I would expect this header to be used [2] and no copyright line. If these are 3rd party files then I'd expect them to be mentioned in LICENSE. - Some 3rd party software is included in the software release but is not mentioned in the license file [3]
One of the issue we run into in the Incubator is podlings copy popular top level projects approach to their LICENSE and NOTICE files and this can cause a bit of confusion. As I said there may be good reason for above that I'm unaware of, however I have reviewed 100's of releases at the ASF and the above seems a little odd to me. I'm happy to help out in fixing these issues. Kind Regards, Justin 1. https://infra.apache.org/licensing-howto.html#guiding 2. https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers 3. https://infra.apache.org/licensing-howto.html#alv2-dep
