On Nov 24, 2011, at 1:59 AM, ant elder wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: >> >> On Nov 23, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: >> >>> Alan, >>> >>>>> It's unfortunate that the vote only took 24 hours on the Kafka list; it >>> was my understanding that votes take 72 hours. >>> >>> Because the only change was in the NOTICE and DISCLAIMER files from >>> previous RC, our champion (Chris C) suggested we could run a quicker lazy >>> 24 hour vote. >> >> Yeah, I'm not sure the vote can be shortened. I could be wrong. If it can >> then I totally agree with the inclination to get goin' with this release. >> I'm sorry it's had so many first and starts. >> >>>>> Anyway, I've found some problems in the NOTICE file in that Kafka >>> uses/ship NUnit but it's not in the NOTICE file. >>> >>> Quoting sebb and Kafka's champion (Chris C) discussed this in the last vote >>> - >>> >>>>>> 4) Your NOTICE file includes lot's of "This product includes X, >>> developed by X.org" Your notice file should only include notices that you >>> are *required* to have. Don't include acknowledgements in your notice file >>> just for completeness. >>> >>>>>> Just to be clear: why not? >>> >>> *>>> The NOTICE file should be as short as possible, but no shorter. >>> * >>> Having said that, we also don't have any jar like "NUnit" in the release >>> artifacts. >> >> B ./bin/../clients/csharp/lib/nunit/2.5.9/nunit.framework.dll >> >> Reading the license >> >> http://www.nunit.org/index.php?p=license&r=2.5.9 >> >> it seems to me that an acknowledgment in the product documentation is >> required. Am I misreading their license? (wouldn't be the first time) >> > > I don't remember that license coming up before so the easiest way to > find out is to bring it up at legal-discuss@. A similar question was > raised in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-59 and the > conclusion there was it didn't have to be in the NOTICE. This is not > exactly the same but it is similar so maybe it would be ok for this > release could go ahead assuming its ok and raise a legal JIRA to > confirm that for the future?
The tgz files are the product that's being distributed. It's clear that the NUnit license requires an acknowledgement somewhere in the product. Regards, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
