I have a question regarding the NOTICE and LICENSE file as it pertains to an
MIT or BSD license.
If I, for example, have a source file with a copyright notice followed by
MIT license text, can't I just put the copyright notice in the LICENSE file
with a pointer to the MIT license text (or actually include the text)?
Do I need to add anything in the NOTICE file? In
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#header-existingcopyright seems
to imply that the copyright should be added to the NOTICE file.
When I look at other projects LICENSE and NOTICE files; everyone seems to do
it differently, even with the same copyright details.
Regards,
Roberta
-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin Humphrey [mailto:mar...@rectangular.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 6:16 AM
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Cc: lrese...@apache.org
Subject: Re: apache-website-template git commit: Add LICENSE and NOTICE
files
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:17 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> PING
I'd also like to see this addressed. Licensing documentation for Incubator
sample code should adhere to best practices.
> On 28 November 2015 at 22:59, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 28 November 2015 at 16:26, <lrese...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> +The following components included on this website are distributed under
>>> MIT license :
>>> +
>>> +- Jekyll
>>> +- Jekyll Bootstrap
>>> +- Bootstrap
>>> +- jQuery
>>> +
>>> +The MIT License (MIT):
>>> +
>>> +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
>>> +obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
>>> +files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
>>> +restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
>>> +modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
>>> +of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
>>> furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>>> +
>>> +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>>> +included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>>> +
>>> +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
>>> +EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
>>> +MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
>>> +NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
>>> +BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
>>> +ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
>>> +CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
>>> SOFTWARE.
>>> +
>>> +
>>
>> The LICENSE looks OK.
+1, it's OK, though I'd make one suggestion.
The addition of the MIT license text minus the copyright notice (the intent
is clearly to generalize so that it applies to 4 different dependencies) is
a bit irregular. The copyright notice is an integral part of the MIT
license -- it's actually a license template and is only completed when the
copyright notice has the owner filled in.
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
To addresss the irregularity, I'd suggest either prepending the template
line `Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>` -- or simply omitting the
text of the MIT license, instead including filepath pointers to where the
deps can be found in the distro.
>>> http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/apache-website-template/blob/
>>> 9e881e24/NOTICE
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> --
>>> diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..a4fed15
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/NOTICE
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
>>
>> The ASF Copright header is missing
>>
>> See http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice
>>
+1
Just the copyright notice, i.e. this:
Apache [PRODUCT_NAME]
Copyright [yyyy] The Apache Software Foundation
Actually, what should "[PRODUCT_NAME]" be in this case?
>>> +This product includes software developed at The Apache Software
>>> +Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
>>> +
>>
>> That paragraph is OK
>>
>>> +This product uses Jekyll software (http://jekyllrb.com/) Copyright
>>> +(c) 2008-2015 Tom Preston-Werner
>>> +
>>> +This product includes Boostrap software (http://getbootstrap.com/)
>>> +Copyright (c) 2011-2015 Twitter, Inc
>>> +
>>> +This product includes jQuery software (http://jquery.com/)
>>> +Copyright jQuery Foundation and other contributors,
>>> +https://jquery.org/
>>
>> AFAICT these 3 attributions are NOT necessary for MIT licensed code,
>> see
>>
>> http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps
+1, those should definitely be removed.
Marvin Humphrey
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