Dammit, I meant to paste in the references. On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Leo Simons <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: >> IAN ALE is much nicer. IAN, ALE! is better still :-) > > :-). Good plan! > >> I removed mention of granted code from NOTICE because while watching >> incubator-general@, it was mentioned that NOTICE should be minimal. > > Yes, it should be minimal.
...per http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#notice-content >> [[ >> The remainder of the NOTICE file is to be used for required third-party >> notices. The NOTICE file may also include copyright notices moved from >> source files submitted to the ASF. >> ]] >> >> "required third-party notices" is only PluggedIn Software and I'm taking >> *may* as RFC 2119 "may", hence not required for HP granted material. > > So, err, I guess that last sentence is ambiguous :-). I think you > should interpret it differently: I think it should be "The NOTICE file > MUST include all copyright notices moved from source files submitted > to the ASF, UNLESS the copyright holder removes the notice". I.e. > because you cannot ever completely remove a copyright notice for > someone else, if it's there, you SHOULD move it, and then you SHOULD > move it to the NOTICE file, but you definitely MUST NOT erase it > completely. ...per http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#header-existingcopyright > If you are producing a binary distribution, the license SHOULD > also be in the top level LICENSE file of that distribution, per the > BSD license itself: ...and per http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#distributing-code-under-several-licenses cheerio, Leo
