Hi, > Do you think what's provided in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-684 is accurate/complete ?
Yes, and it follows the advice in [1] > Specifically, as the how-to states: "Do not add anything to NOTICE > which is not legally required." So, if those dependencies have > third-party notices in NOTICE, then those third-party notices must be > included in this new NOTICE as well. That is correct (well, it's what's bundled in the release, not all its dependencies). > For cases where we are including whole products within another > product, it makes sense to include the whole copyright notices for > those products along with their third-party notices. Yes. So, for example, you’ll need to do this with Picocli. > For cases like > this, where the project is deriving code from another ASF project, as > opposed to including the other project, it is not appropriate to > include the full copyright statements in NOTICE since it does not help > the recipients to know this information. Which is fine, but remember copyright lines end up in NOTICE files for several reasons other than just the ASF copyright line: a) Those that are relocated as their header have been removed from files. b) Because of a software grant. c) Because they were in other 3rd party NOTICE files and copied from those. > Can you clarify ? If your "personal" preference is to have all NOTICE > and all content (including for ASF dependencies) No, that's not my preference. You need to include only what is needed. Each ASF NOTICE still needs to be looked at to see what needs to be included, as it may contain other notices. Kind Regards, Justin 1. https://infra.apache.org/licensing-howto.html
