On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>
wrote:

> 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
>


Again, apologies for taking a bit long to address this, as these comments
got automatically archived.

I have addressed both of comments now, where :

- License now have one entry per dependency, with proper copyright notice
- Notice file has been cleaned up and added Apache Copyright entry

Please let me know if there are other issues that still needs to be
addressed.

-- 
Luciano Resende
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