Thanks Marvin, that helped me out quite a bit! - Taylor
On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:24 AM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:10 PM, P. Taylor Goetz <ptgo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It's kind of interesting to see how this has changed over time and varies >> from project to project. > > Here's Roy Fielding in June 2008, saying exactly the same thing you'll hear > from us now: > > http://s.apache.org/Y4v > > If the notices aren't required by the bits in the package, then they > don't belong in NOTICE. That means there will be a different NOTICE file > required for each differently packaged set of bits. We must do this by > hand. > > Because the file is named "NOTICE", people tend to think it's for anything > notice-ish. This is a pernicious misconception which keeps coming back over > and over like a weed, and it used to be that not a lot of people besides Roy > were effective at combatting it. Here's Roy in 2008 again: > > http://s.apache.org/ZIU > >> Furthermore, I assume it is not problematic to have more stuff in the >> NOTICE file(s) than is really required. > > Yes, it is problematic. Consider it a tax on all downstream recipients. > > Roy can't be everywhere, though, and there are a lot of TLPs who have messy > licensing documentation because they didn't get proper guidance. > > The Licensing How-To, added earlier this year, provides a cookbook approach > which is supposed to yield appropriately sparse LICENSE and NOTICE files. > > http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html > > Hopefully the Incubator is now more consistently graduating projects whose > licensing documentation approaches the unchanging minimalist ideal. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >
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