On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Jakob Homan <jgho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There is a sample NOTICE file linked [1] from ASF Source Header and >> Copyright Notice Policy [2] >> >> [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-examplenotice >> [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice > > As someone trying to generate these documents, I'm actually finding > these to be poor examples when trying to see what should and should > not be in NOTICE. On > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice, under NOTICE > file, there is "The remainder of the NOTICE file is to be used for > required third-party notices." with a link to "What Are Required > Third-party Notices?" However, this text doesn't talk about NOTICE, > but LICENSE: Apache releases should contain a copy of each license, > usually contained in the LICENSE document. > > And the httpd NOTICE doesn't provide many examples (there are only > three non-Apache items listed). These don't answer questions such as: > Do other Apache projects need to be listed in NOTICE as well (which > was answered in the email exchange above, but as such won't of much > use to the next Podling that comes along), or Do other Apache projects > need to be noted in the LICENSE file (not answered here, that I can > see), or How to include reference 3rd party jars in the LICENSE file > that are also Apache 2.0 licensed? > > Casting about for an example more relevant, I come across Whirr's 0.4 > release, which was +1'ed from Incubator and take a look at its > NOTICE.txt (from > http://people.apache.org/~asavu/whirr-0.4.0-incubating-candidate-2/): > Apache Whirr > Copyright 2010-2011 The Apache Software Foundation > > This product includes software developed at > The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). > > And then the jars that are included in the source distribution: > ./services/cassandra/lib/apache-cassandra-0.7.0.jar > ./services/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.5.jar > ./services/hadoop/lib/hadoop-test-0.20.3-SNAPSHOT.jar > ./services/voldemort/lib/linkedin-voldemort-0.90.RC3.jar > > Voldemort was not developed at the ASF and isn't listed in NOTICE. > This candidate was +1ed and released. Was this in error?
Personally I don't believe whirr is in error. Voldemort is under Apache 2.0 license, and as such falls under this: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#required-third-party-notices Patrick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
