Note: the NOTICE year will need to be changed for the next release to 2010-2011. For the current release I think it can remain as is - there don't seem to have been any substantive changes made in 2011.
The leading blank lines need to be removed. Otherwise, I concur with what Ant has mentioned elsethread. The NOTICE file needs to be as short as possible; think of it as an About box. Generally at most one or two lines are needed per product (as for ASF code) So for any products that *require* a notice, the following should be enough: =========== This product contains MegaCorp FOO Copyright (c) 1995-2000 by the MegaCorp Universal Corporation =========== The full details go in the LICENSE file. On 8 January 2011 11:05, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rather than spin a whole new RC and upload it, which takes me two > hours, I've attached the revised proposed NOTICE and LICENSE here, so > people can comment directly. > > Karl > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The current NOTICE file has exactly what you specify, plus a preamble >> describing components and their licenses. I will remove the preamble >> - it was based on the Solr/Lucene NOTICE which I was told to use as an >> example. >> >> The LICENSE file, on the other hand, should currently have everything >> that's in the NOTICE file in expanded form. If you think I should >> move the preamble to the LICENSE file as well, this would be the time >> to indicate that. Otherwise, the preamble will just be deleted. >> >> Karl >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:06 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> - I have made no changes to NOTICE and LICENSE, because the incubator >>>> and community advice seemed contradictory. I would like a general >>>> sense of how many people feel that the current NOTICE and LICENSE >>>> files are unacceptable before I make changes. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> ...ant >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> >>> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
