On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Leo Simons<m...@leosimons.com> wrote: > (dropped cassandra-dev) > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:44 AM, sebb<seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 09/09/2009, Leo Simons <m...@leosimons.com> wrote: >>> Even if it is not in the release I believe there is nothing wrong with >>> putting an acknowledgment in the NOTICE file. (putting terms in the >>> LICENSE file that do not apply is bad, though). >> >> I think it's confusing, and NOTICE is supposed to be as minimal as possible. > > And so indeed it says in our draft release management guide since a few weeks: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/public/trunk/site-author/guides/releasemanagement.xml?r1=805581&r2=805940 > > "The NOTICE document is for additional copyright and attribution statements > those licenses may require. A typical NOTICE document at a minimum > includes a copyright and attribution statement for The Apache Software > Foundation. Nothing else belongs in the NOTICE document." > > Joe obviously agrees :) > > The important new (to me) bit is "Nothing else belongs in the NOTICE > document".
Its new in this (informative) guide only, has been (normative) ASF policy for a while: http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#notice-content Quite clearly: "Only mandatory information required by the product's software licenses." > Someone want to explain me the background for that? I still want to know :) - Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
