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On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 5:53 PM Paolo Bizzarri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > - IPMC has requested changes to our LICENSE and NOTICE files. > https://lists.apache.org/thread/nrq50szwx37doopb23wyq33v0t3bbccg > > - see in particular comments from Justin McLean > https://lists.apache.org/thread/nrq50szwx37doopb23wyq33v0t3bbccg > > - we cannot do another release BEFORE we are sure that Apache/IPMC is > happy with what we have done. > > - therefore I am asking our mentors Andrea Cosentino and Claude Ibsen to > provide some help and guidance here > > - Andrea, Claude, Justin McLean in the linked email is providing some > points on what we should fix. In particular he mentions: > > "Your NOTICE file is incorrect and looks to contain LICENSE information > this should go in your LICENSE file. The NOTICE is also not a place to list > the copyright statements of all included software, the NOTICE file should > only include re-located copyright statements and contents of included > software NOTICE files." > > - Moving licenses from NOTICE file to LICENSE file is of course easy. Do > we need to do this for every NOTICE and LICENSE file? We have a general > NOTICE and LICENSE file and several ones in each of the underlying repos. > You need to have one notice and one license file for each repository you're going to release. > > - it is unclear for me what it means that "the NOTICE file should only > include re-located copyright statements and contents of included software > NOTICE files". What are relocated copyright statements? > If I understand that right, we are talking about copyright notices moved from source files submitted to the ASF and contained in the NOTICE files. This should help: https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html By the way, generally speaking, if you ask Justin to explain what it means, he will help for sure. This is what I understood from the discussion, but I could be wrong. > > Thank you for your help. > > Regards > > Paolo > > -- Andrea Cosentino <[email protected]> Principal Software Engineer Red Hat Application Foundations - Integration
