All of our sandbox projects have at their top levels LICENSE and NOTICE files. These files are somewhat different for different projects, because the projects have different dependencies.
When we package the sandbox projects we are "releasing" into source and binary distributions, we are including at the top level of that aggregation of projects, a LICENSE and NOTICE file. To be correct, it seems to me that these files should be a logical "merge" of all the contained LICENSE and NOTICE files. Is this correct? (I note that at the moment, the top level LICENSE file seems to an attempt at merging, but the top level NOTICE file isn't.) An alternative would be to have the top level distribution version of these files say something like: This distribution is an aggregation of projects from the UIMA-Sandbox. Please see in each subdirectory for each project for its LICENSE and NOTICE files. If we could do this, it would make future releases easier by reducing the merge work. Is this allowed? Other opinions? Thanks. -Marshall
