On 3 June 2013 22:40, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:23 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 3 June 2013 05:10, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Alan Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: >>>>... >>>> >>>> Apache Incubator tools >>>> Copyright 2013 The Apache Software Foundation >>>> >>>> This product includes software developed at >>>> The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). >>>> >>>> This distribution contains code from the LinkedIn Corporation: >>>> >>>> Copyright (c) 2013 LinkedIn Corp. All rights reserved. >>>> Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 >>>> >>>> >>>> WDYT? >>> >>> Looks good. And given that the LinkedIn stuff is under ALv2, then 4(d) >>> comes into play, requesting attribution. It is Right and Proper that >>> they get a couple lines in our NOTICE file. >> >> I'm not convinced of that. >> If their attribution request is not in the NOTICE file, does it have >> to go in ours? > > Maybe, maybe not. Why be so concerned? Let's be good citizens and > recognize their contribution in our NOTICE file. It doesn't hurt > anybody. > > If they have their own NOTICE file, which gets incorporated into a > subdir of *our* distro, then we can/should reference it from our > NOTICE file. > > I'd rather that we be nice by default.
I think that conflicts with the advice here: http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#mod-notice The last sentence says: "Do not add anything to NOTICE which is not legally required." Being legal and being nice may not be completely disjoint but they are certainly not identical. > Cheers, > -g > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
