Hi,
> I suppose I still could have missed something, but I thought i'd gotten the
> bulk of it right - could you please
> tell me what you noticed that I missed or misunderstood from your last
> post?
Only things in the release need to be in LICENSE or NOTICE [1]. I’d check that
first. Permissive licensed software (i.e. MIT/BSD) don't need to go in NOTICE
[5], I can see there a few of those there.
> Does that simply mean that I should remove all apache licensed dependencies
> from the binary NOTICE and all is good?
Generally when adding Apache licenced software there's no need to modify
LICENSE or NOTICE unless it has a NOTICE file [2]. That means you generally
don’t have to add much when bundling other ASF projects especially when they
have a boilerplate NOTICE file. [3] The no need to add Apache licensed software
to LICENSE but it not an licensing error to do so. I generally don’t mind that
as it makes checking releases a little easier when reviewing.
Not that dependancies of dependancies matter [4]. Rather than go down that
rabbit hole just look inside all the jars in the release with something like
this:
find . -name "*.jar" -exec tar ft {} \; | sort -u > paths.txt
Look at all of the classes contained to see what’s included. For example with
TinkerPop I see that it includes "com/carrotsearch/hppc” and looking at its
license (Apache) I can see it has a NOTICE file (which looks incorrect but
that’s another story), so that would need to be considered and possibly
something added to TinkerPop’s NOTICE. In this case I’d probably assume a
standard NOTICE and add a copyright line to the NOTICE file - but that’s not
the only valid solution. It's may not be always clear cut what needs to be done
and you may have to consider each on a case by case basis.
If any questions come up ask you mentors, ask this list or on legal discuss.
Thanks,
Justin
1. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#guiding-principle
2.. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#alv2-dep
3. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#bundle-asf-product
4. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#deps-of-deps
5. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps
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