Mentors, I believe based on completing analysis of the all of our dependencies and their related licenses that we should now be considered complete for the following two incubation items categorized as 'Verify Distribution Rights':
*** 1). Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license, we have the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute. 2). Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially the same terms. *** I believe the analysis of all of our dependencies and research into all of their applicable copyrights, licenses, etc. that we have covered these requirements. The analysis included all code for which we've developed direct dependent code as well as those we depend on transitively. The results of that analysis have concluded in the current LICENSE file included with our build as found here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nifi/blob/develop/LICENSE We have licenses which are consistent with those called out in http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a We have the following license dependencies from the list known as 'Category A' - BSD (2-clause) - BSD (3-clause) - MIT We have the following license dependencies from the list known as 'Category B' - CDDL 1.0 - CDDL 1.1 - MPL 2.0 - EPL 1.0 And a few dependencies listed as 'public domain'. We have no dependencies listed from the disallowed list. During the analysis it revealed three dependencies which did violate the rules but those have been addressed in NIFI-183. I believe the LICENSE and NOTICE files have been updated appropriately. With your permission I'd like to consider these as resolved (though we do recognize that we have to keep these up to date). Thank you Joe
