Thanks for clarifying this Justin.  Filed GEODE-914 to clean this up.

Anthony


> On Feb 3, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> NOTICE contains copyright, commons-io [2]
> 
> It’s my understanding that for an ASF produced product with the name, 
> copyright and “this software produced at the ASF” that nothing needs to be 
> added to notice.
> 
>> NOTICE contains copyright and a few other declarations, log4j2 [3]
> 
> Drop the Apache one and add the rest. I don’t know the history but it looks 
> like these are from copyright statements that have been relocated from the 
> original source headers. Note [1] has standard ASF header and these 
> instructions [2].
> 
>> NOTICE contains LOTS of stuff, lucene [4]
> 
> Which looks wrong to me as it contains un-required Apache, MIT and BSD 
> software. It looks like most (if not all) of that should be in LICENSE not 
> NOTICE. Given lucene has been about for a long time there are probably 
> historical reasons for this. The policy of what goes in notice / license has 
> changed over time.
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 
> 1. 
> https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/log4j-core/src/main/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/config/plugins/util/ResolverUtil.java
> 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#mod-notice
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