I agree, I didn't mean to generalize about Category B "notice" requirements.
With regard to there being a standard notice for MPL, I was careless. MPL 1.1
had a template notice. MPL 2.0 just has section 3.2(a):
If You distribute Covered Software in Executable Form then:
a. such Covered Software must also be made available in Source
Code Form, as described in Section 3.1, and You must inform
recipients of the Executable Form how they can obtain a copy
of such Source Code Form by reasonable means in a timely manner,
at a charge no more than the cost of distribution to the
recipient; [...]
The license is careful to discriminate between Source Code Form and Executable
Form, and there is little detail on notifications associated with an Executable
Form for MPL 2.0.
I would think that providing the information in NOTICE satisfies the
requirement. It would be much easier than coming up with another artifact
beside LICENSE and NOTICE, which knowledgable folks already know to look for.
I don't have any insight on dealing with the fact that the dependency is
build-specific, however the information is provided.
- Dennis
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From: sebb [mailto:seb...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:43
To: Marvin Humphrey
Cc: orc...@apache.org; Sergio Fernández; Roy T. Fielding;
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Subject: Re: LICENSE/NOTICE revisited (was Release Apache Marmotta
3.0.0-incubating (RC8))
On 23 April 2013 18:05, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <orc...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> > Not so fast about dispensing with Category B requirements for pointers to
> > source code.
>
> Thank you for the specific information about the MPL. What I said was
> this:
>
> The goal is to satisfy the licensing requirements of the dependency,
> not
> to give credit -- so IMO linking only makes sense if that's a
> requirement
> of the dependency's license.
>
> We must not treat linking as a requirement of ALL category B licenses
> because
> SOME of them require it.
>
>
If the source code URL is required, then the question arises: does it
*have* to go in the NOTICE file?
Indeed is this one of the functions of the NOTICE file?
Or should it be documented somewhere else?
> Marvin Humphrey
>
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