Drill has had previous releases stopped *precisely* because NOTICE had too much stuff in it. The items you mention are among these items.
I think the release is satisfactory as is. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am reading http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html . Yes > LICENSE also needs to contain more things as well. Yes, there are > several situations where NOTICE does not need to change, but this is > the key sentence: > > "Aside from Apache-licensed dependencies which supply NOTICE files of > their own, it is uncommon for a dependency to require additions to > NOTICE." > > Lots of the dependencies I see here are Apache-licensed dependencies > with NOTICE files. The Apache License 2 clause 4 means any (relevant) > parts of the NOTICE files must be included in a distribution, and the > NOTICE file is the place for that*. > > Here's a correct (AFAIK) example from Spark: > > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/NOTICE > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/LICENSE > > Some of the same dependencies are included in both. > > I don't see why this doesn't apply to Drill too? Unless the guidance > above is out of date. > > * I am not clear whether distribution a .jar, which has its NOTICE > file embedded, "counts". This would not be the case in an 'uber' jar > the the project distributes, and there are some third-party uber jars > here like hive-exec, but I don't see a Drill uber jar. Maybe that > counts; maybe it's safer just to populate NOTICE appropriately. Or, > avoid shipping copies of all these jars directly? > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Actually, the licensing howto says things like this: > > > > In LICENSE, add a pointer <http://s.apache.org/Hqj> to the dependency's > > license within the source tree and a short note summarizing its > licensing: > > > > This product bundles SuperWidget 1.2.3, which is available under a > > > > "3-clause BSD" license. For details, see deps/superwidget/. > > > > Under normal circumstances, there is no need to modify NOTICE. > > > > Over and over again, it is emphasized that NOTICE does not need to be > > modified and that the reference should be in the LICENSE file. > > > > This seems to contradict your assertion that these references need to be > in > > the NOTICE file. > > > > Are you sure we are reading the same document? > > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> No I just went straight for the binary distribution: > >> > >> > >> > http://people.apache.org/~smp/apache-drill-0.6.0.rc0/apache-drill-0.6.0-incubating.tar.gz > >> > >> This contains the third-party jar files in jars/. > >> > >> I assume http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html is still the > >> law of the land so to speak and indicates that lots of these things > >> need to be in NOTICE. > >> > >> > >> On Oct 10, 2014 9:24 PM, "Ted Dunning" <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > Sean, > >> > > >> > Are you talking about the src distribution after doing the build? > >> > > >> > Before doing the build or after [mvn clean], there are no jars in the > >> > distribution. > >> > > >> > Videlicet: > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > >
