Hi everyone,
Maybe setting up a more "readable" page on how to comply with the license if you use any of the apache products will help, so we can mail a quick link on how to achieve compliance. My experience is that most people are just looking for a nice package to solve their problems, download it, strip it from everything it has (except for the jar itself)
and don't care about the license or do not know what the implications of a certain license is for their system (eg when choosing a GPL license).
Also it is not directly clear from the license (at least not for everyone) what you should do.
So eg :
How to comply with the Apache License if you use apache products in your product :
Taking ant as a (in my view) good example :
- Include the LICENSE-2.0.txt in your distribution.
How ? Create a LICENSE.packagename file for every (apache) dependency you use.
Where ? In the root of the distribution.
- Include the NOTICE file (eg from http://www.apache.org/licenses/example-NOTICE.txt) and the appropiate attribuations.
Where ? In the root of the distribution.
How to handle eg webstart applications ? Is it sufficient to include that information in eg jar files ? Or should an About window be created ?
Just an idea.
Mvgr, Martin
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Last year I had a contact with my local taxes administration, who were distributing many copies (a few hundred thousand probably) of their VaudTax (http://www.vaudtax.vd.ch/, in French) software, containing several ASF librairies, without including the required credits and license.
Although they promised to correct this, I've just downloaded the new release, and apparently they haven't done it: no credits or license, as far as I can tell. I've looked in the about box, PDF docs, grepped the installed files, and the word "apache" is only present in ASF jar files.
I've written them to politely ask if I have overlooked something and if the credits and license are indeed in there.
I'll keep this list posted and ask for advice if the lack of license is indeed confirmed, about what kind of action to take. One of our substate (Vaud is a "canton", a substate of Switzeland) ministers is an open source advocate, maybe he would help us make some positive noise about this.
But let's wait to see if this is confirmed - I just wanted to keep the list informed as I have written to them about the problem.
-Bertrand
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