On 31/03/2008, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sebb wrote: > > > >> > The NOTICE file is for required attribtions ONLY (e.g. as per an About > box) > >> > There's really no need to repeat ASF for each project used by Abdera. > >> > > >> > >> Having too much information in the NOTICE files is not a crime. The > >> Maven remote-resources plugin aggregates all this stuff for us so we > >> never miss any notice that we need to put in. > >> > > > > Unfortunately the plugin generates incorrect information. > > > > It does NOT generate incorrect information. It simply generates extra > attributions for all the ASF projects we reuse. > > > It *is* a problem having all the redundant information. > > > > See for example: > > > > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html > > also > > http://wiki.apache.org/legal/3party/notice > > http://wiki.apache.org/legal/3party/notice/discuss > > > > It says "should" not requires w.r.t. the mandatory license attributions. > Once again, I maintain that this is not a problem. > > > >>> -1: The LICENSE files need to either contain copies of the 3rd party > >>> > >> > licenses, or they need to have a reference to the 3rd party licences. > >> > Equally, there is no need for the lib directory to contain copies of > >> > the AL for every ASF product. > >> > > >> > >> Why does the LICENSE file need to have a copy of all the other licenses? > >> These are contained in the lib/ directory like many other ASF projects. > >> > >> > > > > See the last paragraph of: > > > > http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html#new > > > > > > "or at least put a pointer in the LICENSE file to the third-party > license" - which we in the NOTICE file. >
But they need to go in the LICENSE file, see: http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html#new > There is not a legal requirement here that it must be in the LICENSE > file itself - if so, please point me to the place in the license. This > is page is to provide "guidance" (see the first sentence), not be the > ultimate authority on what exactly is legally permissible for distributions. > > If you look at many other ASF projects in the incubator and outside, > you'll see that this is not an enforced policy - this is simply telling > developers one way to get started here. > > > Dan > > -- > Dan Diephouse > MuleSource > http://mulesource.com | http://netzooid.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
