Hi Ant, On Aug 17, 2009, at 7:33 AM, ant elder wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, sebb<seb...@gmail.com> wrote:>> the NOTICE file looks acceptable to me too. >> AIUI, the NOTICE file needs to give attributions to all 3rd party code> included in the propose release. no - just require 3rd party attribution notices and relocatedcopyrights (see http://www.apache.org/legal/src- headers.html#notice)So all the 3rd party licenses need to be checked to see if they require attribution or not. I've only checked one - Antlr - and AFAICT that does require attribution (notice).The contents of the NOTICE file is another area I think is not so precisely defined. http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice says: "The remainder of the NOTICE file is to be used for required third-party notices"
The NOTICE file is where downstream consumers of Apache software expect to find *all* *required* third-party notices.
but there is nothing that defines what are "required third-party notices". The ANTLR license (http://www.antlr.org/license.html) says: "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."
When a notice includes the words "required", "must", "shall", or other imperative, then the notice is considered to be a "required third- party notice". And it should therefore be placed into the top level NOTICE file of the distribution.
This is done in the Cassandra release by including the complete ANTLR license in a separate license file,
This is not sufficient.
and as thats done it covers all the ANTLR requirements so is there any specific ASF policy that says its also necessary to have anything related to ANTLR in the NOTICE file?
The reason the Apache policy is written the way it is, is to avoid downstream users from having to search through lots of different files with non-standard names to find all the third-party notices.
Craig
...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Craig L Russell Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://db.apache.org/jdo 408 276-5638 mailto:craig.russ...@sun.com P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
