Hi,
On 23.03.2012 12:47, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
Hi,
On 23.03.2012 11:57, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
Hi,
I will have a look at the NOTICE and the LICENSE file - both located in main/ -,
if there is something missing.
Pedro already did a great job here - I am more or less expecting that everything
is already covered in these files.
If there is any input regarding its content, please provide the information here
- Thanks in advance.
I will mainly assure that the notices and licenses of the current work regarding
the RAT scan which results in certain entries in the rat-excludes are also
covered in the NOTICE and LICENSE file.
Help is very welcome here.
Thus again, if you know of the one or the other 3rd party
component/library/code, drop me a note. I will check, if these are reflected in
these files.
Before starting to work on these files I had a look at the corresponding Apache
policies/rules/... regarding these files - [1], [2], [3]
I have discovered [9] which more or less state that an entry into the NOTICE
file is mostly not needed and depends on the specific license of the 3rd party
component.
Having a look at the LICENSE and NOTICE file of Apache httpd project seems to
confirm this.
Pedro, do you consider [9] when you did your hard work on the NOTICE file?
Mentors (and others too, of course), do you have certain advise what kind of
wordings in a license makes an entry in the NOTICE file necessary?
[1] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html
[2] http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html
[3] http://apache.org/dev/apply-license.html
[9] http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#required-third-party-notices
Looking at the LICENSE files of Apache httpd and subversion projects reveals
that for each license in the LICENSE file the corresponding source/component is
identified. Some like:
- "For the mod_mime_magic component:"
- "For the modules\mappers\mod_imagemap.c component:"
Is such an identification necessary in the LICENSE file?
I did not find information about the form of the LICENSE file content on
apache.org.
Thanks, Oliver.
