On 13-Jan-08, at 5:25 AM, Dennis Lundberg wrote:
Hi
As mentioned by Simon on the release thread for maven-jar-plugin,
there has been discussions [1] over at Apache Commons regarding the
apache-jar-resource-bundle [2].
The issue that people have pointed out there, is that the generated
NOTICE file includes more stuff than they think it should. They are
of the opinion that it should *not* contain info about the
dependencies of a project. Only things that are included in the
distribution (i.e. the jar-file) should be NOTICEd, they say.
Simon also asked on the legal-discuss list for an expert opinion,
but received no responses.
The documentation about ASF policy on NOTICE files [3] are scarce,
and doesn't really say anything in the matter, as far as I can see.
IANAL, so I promised that I would take this matter up on maven-dev.
[1] http://markmail.org/message/xyzfglktyk56vkse
[2]
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/resources/tags/apache-jar-resource-bundle-1.3/
[3] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice
It says that that the notice is used for 3rd party requirements,
what's so unclear about that?
I wouldn't spend much time on this. Only a lawyer is going to know and
there is always time for us to change anything that's incorrect.
If you want to look at what is mostly likely correctly look at the
HTTPD notices. Roy Fielding watches over that project and he's the
only non-lawyer at Apache that approaches knowing what a lawyer does
and is the only one here with reliable legal prowess. So anything he
knows would be embodied in the files in the HTTPD project. All the
other jibber jabber by everyone who thinks there are legal problems
generally have no factual basis for their claims and generally don't
know what they are talking about.
This is a non-issue, we're not going to get into legal trouble for
having more information. And more information is always better so I
would let it be until some lawyer, or Roy, tells us it's categorically
wrong.
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Dennis Lundberg
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Jason
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