The request to donate the wrapper was closed won't fix (they did
adjust the license headers)

I've made a comment on a 3+ year old issue on maven itself, which had
excluded the wrapper due to perceived problems in performing change
inside the ASF

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5937?focusedCommentId=16771456&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-16771456

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:18 PM Adrian Cole <adrian.f.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FYI I've asked takari to donate the wrapper to the ASF. It is
> important but tiny
> https://github.com/takari/takari-maven-plugin/issues/18
>
> Meanwhile, we will remove the wrapper from the source distribution as
> putting it in the NOTICE file is something off-putting to a few of our
> contributors. We can build without the wrapper and it isn't worth
> making a commitment to the NOTICE file for what seems not thought
> through.
>
> If the enforcement rules loosen back to where we don't need to do
> this, or the plugin or a copy of it is donated to the ASF, we'll
> likely put it back into the source distribution.
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:29 PM Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > If we all say fine.. let's just throw more paperwork at it, I would ask 
> > > you
> > > to help draft a line for the NOTICE of what we would do. suppose we would
> > > also have to do this for gradle etc.
> >
> > You would need to do this for any 3rd party file bundled with a release and 
> > yes sometimes this is complex and takes time. See for example Apache Newt. 
> > [1]
> >
> > > So basically if we accept that the new norm is this level of detail on
> > > incidental files,
> >
> > It’s a 3rd party file not an incidental file and the ASF has policy around 
> > what to do when including 3rd party files which a (P)PMC and releases need 
> > to comply with. [2][3]
> >
> > To comply however is a simple change that needs to be made once to clearly 
> > inculcate the IP province and license of that file to users of the projects.
> >
> > > would it be "this includes source generated by the takari maven plugin"?
> > > and of course if we say this, the next cruft is explaining gradle etc.
> >
> > If you don’t know what to do ask you mentors or the IPMC for help. If you 
> > disagree with advice given then clarify on legal-discuss.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
> >
> > 1. https://github.com/apache/mynewt-newt/blob/master/LICENSE
> > 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#goal
> > 3. http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#valid
> >
> >
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