El mié, 02-04-2008 a las 23:08 +0100, sebb escribió: > On 02/04/2008, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:59 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 02/04/2008, Kevan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Dan Diephouse wrote: > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > > I misspoke. Here's what I meant to ask: > > > > > > > > > > Do we need to 1) include all the licenses for all our dependencies > > in a > > > > single LICENSE file or can we 2) have our top LICENSE file which is > > ASL and > > > > then have individual LICENSE files for each library in the lib/ > > directory. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm not aware of a requirement for having only 1 LICENSE file. In > > fact, the > > > > document says you don't have to append 3rd-party licenses to the > > LICENSE > > > > file. It does say you should put a pointer to the license files. So, > > IMO, 2) > > > > is fine. Other Apache projects do this also. > > > > > > 2) is fine so long as the main LICENSE jar tells users where to find > > > the other license - i.e. it has pointers to the other licenses. > > > > > > AIUI this is not policy > > > > My understanding differs, so I think this needs to be resolved and > formally documented. >
My understanding is as sebb's, and the rationale is that the LICENSE file is where the different licenses governing components of the product are documented, and the NOTICE file documents mandatory copyright notices and attributions from subcomponents, such as they would appear in an "About..." box. The part requiring that the top LICENSE file documents the whole licensing agreement was stated recently in legal-discuss because of a question asked there, and it is common sense, as the most natural place to look for a LICENSE is a top level LICENSE file, which is additionally a universal convention in the world of software from like 20 years ago. Regards Santiago > > - robert > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] -- Santiago Gala http://memojo.com/~sgala/blog/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
