Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-13 Thread sebb
On 12 October 2014 17:40, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:16 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that's correct. Well, since neither of us is a lawyer (at least I am not) at this point we're debating interpretations on ALv2. A source distribution

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-13 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:14 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: 4. presence or absence of NOTICEs in source distribution doesn't affect binary distribution. Not true. Ditto. If you are saying that the NOTICE in an ASF binary release has no direct bearing on the NOTICE in

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-13 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: Excellent. More eyes on these issues is great. Thanks for spending your time on this. +1 Sean and I have continued our conversation offline and were able to clarify some aspects of our (very

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-12 Thread sebb
On 11 October 2014 19:30, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: Netty's artifacts (its distribution) do not include a notice. Thus, They most

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-12 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:16 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: 3. presence or absence of NOTICEs in binary distribution doesn't affect source distribution. Not true. 4. presence or absence of NOTICEs in source distribution doesn't affect binary distribution. Not

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-12 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:16 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that's correct. Well, since neither of us is a lawyer (at least I am not) at this point we're debating interpretations on ALv2. A source distribution with NOTICE may be included in an ASF binary distribution - e.g.

Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: I am reading http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html . Yes LICENSE also needs to contain more things as well. Yes, there are several situations where NOTICE does not need to change, but this is the key sentence: Aside

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Sean Owen
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: I admire the good-faith efforts that the Spark (and Solr) folks have put in attempting to comply with their interpretation of ASF requirements, but I don't think we should encourage podlings to emulate the current

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: Yes it means greater downstream burden, yes it may have originated from a 'hack', but that doesn't seem to make the license not say what it says. Obviously I'd rather not have to do this either. It is a tortured and patently

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Sean Owen
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: It is a tortured and patently incorrect reading to assume that the license requires TWO copies of such notices. Sure, but, nobody said that. The question is whether at least one copy is present, and ideally in the right

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: Here's another example. Drill distributes Netty 4.0.20, which is AL2 licensed and contains a substantial NOTICE file with stuff like ... --- This

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Sean Owen
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: Here's another example. Drill distributes Netty 4.0.20, which is AL2 licensed and contains a substantial NOTICE file with stuff like ...

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, Netty does not include NOTICE.txt in any of its jars for you. This text does not appear therefore in the Drill binary distro. At least, I grepped up and down the whole distro and didn't see it, and it's not in

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Sean Owen
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: Netty's artifacts (its distribution) do not include a notice. Thus, They most certainly do. Please download the distribution of Netty 4.0.20: https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.0.20.Final and find the

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: Netty's artifacts (its distribution) do not include a notice. Thus, They most certainly do. Please download the distribution of Netty 4.0.20:

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: Netty's artifacts (its distribution) do not include a notice. Thus, They most certainly do. Please download the distribution of Netty 4.0.20:

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Sean Owen
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: Netty's artifacts (its distribution) do not include a notice. Thus, They

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: You are confusing different distributions. Netty provides a source distribution which does include a NOTICE file. Netty also provides binary (jar) distributions. These do not include a NOTICE file. I think this is a fair

RE: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
party project. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Roman Shaposhnikmailto:r...@apache.org Sent: ‎10/‎11/‎2014 12:09 PM To: general@incubator.apache.orgmailto:general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Sean

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Sean Owen
Sounds OK to me too if that is the prevailing sentiment; I personally do not operate (non-ASF) OSS projects that way. It seems just within the letter of the law. What about this little transitive dep of Netty I mentioned? This is not a NOTICE issue, and I *think* this one is beyond interpreting

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: Should I just propose a PR since I'm making trouble about it? Great idea. Keep in mind that the binary NOTICE file in Drill is generated automatically by the build code in the source distribution so any PR should be against

RE: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
: Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: Should I just propose a PR since I'm making trouble about it? Great idea. Keep in mind that the binary NOTICE file in Drill is generated automatically by the build code in the source

Re: Bloated NOTICE files are evil

2014-10-11 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: The meta-issue is that some here seem to be arguing that IP licensing can be taken lightly because it's hard or annoying. That's not it. I am arguing that licensing should be as minimal as possible because that's in the