Thanks Suresh, that's a big help. Having a recently approved example helps a lot. The source vs. binary release examples help as well.
It's kind of interesting to see how this has changed over time and varies from project to project. Taylor > On Dec 10, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Suresh Marru <sma...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Dec 10, 2013, at 6:15 PM, P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In the process of preparing the LICENSE and NOTICE files for Storm, I >> started looking at what other Apache projects (both incubator and TLPs) have >> done. >> >> It seems like approaches are all over the map. I've even seen projects that >> don't have a NOTICE. >> >> My question to any mentors and PMC members is are there any projects that >> stand out as having done a really good job at this? (I understand that every >> circumstance is different.) > > I would not call these role models or any where near, but for Apache > Airavata, we spent months during incubation to get the L&N files right > (thanks to our patient mentors). If useful here are the pointers: > > Source L&N files (essentially there are no third party sources bundled, hence > ALV2 only): > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/airavata/trunk/LICENSE > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/airavata/trunk/NOTICE > > The binary distribution bundles a whole bunch of dependencies and we had to > manually traverse through every bundled jar: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/airavata/trunk/modules/distribution/airavata-server/src/main/resources/LICENSE > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/airavata/trunk/modules/distribution/airavata-server/src/main/resources/NOTICE > > Note: In recent past there have been more clarifications on NOTICE file > needing to be even more minimalistic, we did not yet adhere to these policies > yet. So recently released incubator projects might have better examples. > > Suresh > >> >> One project that stood out to me was Cassandra. Storm actually shares some >> of the same dependencies, so I found their approach helpful. >> >> - Taylor >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
