Hi Roberta, Can you ask this on your other thread and include more information about whether this is a file that has been donated to the ASF or is third-party?
On 12/3/15, 8:40 AM, "Roberta Marton" <roberta.mar...@esgyn.com> wrote: >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 > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >
