I wouldn't think of this as being "some java thing"... ;-) Whisker's turning out to be really helpful as a simple command line tool for generating our legal docs from a more structured source (tools/whisker/descriptor.xml)
For CloudStack, we have so many integration points and external libraries, it was much nicer to have a structured way to define everything. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > Ah, some Java thing. Guess some of this is going to take some getting used > to for me. ;) Thanks! > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Chip Childers > <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: >> > Hey, >> > >> > Just been browsing through the JIRA tickets for the ongoing configuration >> > licensing checks. Great work! >> > >> > I did just want to add that when we have established that a file is a >> > derivative work (but we can keep it because the license is compatible) >> then >> > we do need to note this somewhere, along with author. Even if the file >> has >> > been placed into the public domain, or we have been given permission to >> > include it. >> > >> > Here's an example of us being told that a configuration file can be >> > regarded as being the public domain: >> > >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-146 >> > >> > To quote ASF policy[1]: >> > >> > "Many of these licenses have specific attribution terms that need to be >> > adhered to, for example CC-A, often by adding them to the NOTICE file. >> > Ensure you are doing this when including these works. [...] Works in the >> > public domain (or covered by a license treated similarly) may be included >> > within Apache products. Attribution is required (in a similar fashion to >> > permissive licenses)." >> > >> > Perhaps something like this could be added to NOTICE: >> > >> > This product also includes the following third-party components: >> > >> > * vpcdnsmasq.conf (http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) >> > >> > Public domain, Simon Kelley >> > >> > And then for another file which actually retains copyright, we could add: >> > >> > * foo.conf (http://example.org/foo) >> > >> > Copyright 2012, Some Author >> > >> > This format is taken from: >> > >> > >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=NOTICE;hb=HEAD >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > -- >> > NS >> >> Noah, >> >> For completeness, we are using Apache Whisker to generate the LICENSE >> and NOTICE files. For public domain items, the results of that >> generation look like this (from the LICENSE file): >> >> Within the patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc directory >> placed in the public domain >> by Simon Kelley >> dnsmasq.conf >> vpcdnsmasq.conf >> >> -chip >> > > > > -- > NS
