>From svn, Yonik seems to be the go-to guy for LICENSE and NOTICE stuff. >Yonik, do you remember why the HSQLDB and Jetty notice text was included in >Solr's NOTICE.txt? The incubator won't release ManifoldCF until we answer >this question. ;-)
Karl ________________________________________ From: ext Robert Muir [rcm...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 7:11 AM To: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: LICENSE/NOTICE file contents You are probably right... the LICENSE.txt also contains many instances of incorrect capitalization, I noticed that all versions of of this file I can find anywhere have this problem :) On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:14 AM, <karl.wri...@nokia.com> wrote: > This list might be interested to know that the current Solr LICENSE and > NOTICE file contents are not Apache standard. The ManifoldCF project based > its LICENSE and NOTICE files on the Solr ones and got the following icy > reception in the incubator: > >>>>>>> > The NOTICE file is still incorrect and includes a lot of unnecessary > stuff. Understanding how to do releases with the correct legal files > is one of the important parts of incubation and as this is the first > release for the poddling i think this needs to be sorted out. > > For the NOTICE file, start with the following text (between the ---'s): > > --- > Apache ManifestCF > Copyright 2010 The Apache Software Foundation > > This product includes software developed by > The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). > --- > > and then add _nothing_ unless you can find explicit policy documented > somewhere in the ASF that says it is required. If someone wants to add > something ask for the URL where the requirement is documented. The > NOTICE file should only include required notices, the other text thats > in the current NOTICE file could go in a README file, see > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice > > For the LICENSE file, it should start with the AL as the current one > does, and then include the text for all the other licenses used in the > distribution. Those license that are currently in the NOTICE file > should be moved to the LICENSE file and then you need to verify that > all the 3rd party dependencies in the src and binary distributions are > also in the LICENSE files of those distributions. > > <<<<<< > > Our NOTICE includes the following, which was taken from Solr (because we have > a similar dependency). I'd like to know whether it is a valid thing to > include, and where it says that "somewhere in Apache": > >>>>>>> > ========================================================================= > == Jetty Notice == > ========================================================================= > ============================================================== > Jetty Web Container > Copyright 1995-2006 Mort Bay Consulting Pty Ltd > ============================================================== > > This product includes some software developed at The Apache Software > Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). > > The javax.servlet package used by Jetty is copyright > Sun Microsystems, Inc and Apache Software Foundation. It is > distributed under the Common Development and Distribution License. > You can obtain a copy of the license at > https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/CDDLv1.0.html. > > The UnixCrypt.java code ~Implements the one way cryptography used by > Unix systems for simple password protection. Copyright 1996 Aki Yoshida, > modified April 2001 by Iris Van den Broeke, Daniel Deville. > > The default JSP implementation is provided by the Glassfish JSP engine > from project Glassfish http://glassfish.dev.java.net. Copyright 2005 > Sun Microsystems, Inc. and portions Copyright Apache Software Foundation. > > Some portions of the code are Copyright: > 2006 Tim Vernum > 1999 Jason Gilbert. > > The jboss integration module contains some LGPL code. > > ========================================================================= > == HSQLDB Notice == > ========================================================================= > > For content, code, and products originally developed by Thomas Mueller and > the Hypersonic SQL Group: > > Copyright (c) 1995-2000 by the Hypersonic SQL Group. > All rights reserved. > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: > > Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this > list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > > Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, > this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation > and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > > Neither the name of the Hypersonic SQL Group nor the names of its > contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this > software without specific prior written permission. > > THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" > AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE > IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE > ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE HYPERSONIC SQL GROUP, > OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, > EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, > PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; > LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND > ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT > (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS > SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. > > This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many individuals on > behalf of the > Hypersonic SQL Group. > > For work added by the HSQL Development Group (a.k.a. hsqldb_lic.txt): > > Copyright (c) 2001-2005, The HSQL Development Group > All rights reserved. > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: > > Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this > list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > > Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, > this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation > and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > > Neither the name of the HSQL Development Group nor the names of its > contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this > software without specific prior written permission. > > THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" > AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE > IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE > ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL HSQL DEVELOPMENT GROUP, HSQLDB.ORG, > OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, > EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, > PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; > LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND > ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT > (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS > SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. > <<<<<< > > > Karl > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
