If you don't fully understand the license of the code you're planning to use, you should probably consult a lawyer. I am not a lawyer, but my reading of the license is that you don't even need to include the NOTICE file (note how (d) starts with the word "If").
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:48 AM, thevery<[email protected]> wrote: > > I want to re-use several files from android music player which is > licensed in APL2.0 license in my non-oss project. APL license requires > that my works must meet the following conditions: > > (a) You must give any other recipients of the Work or > Derivative Works a copy of this License; and > > (b) You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices > stating that You changed the files; and > > (c) You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works > that You distribute, all copyright, patent, trademark, and > attribution notices from the Source form of the Work, > excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of > the Derivative Works; and > > (d) If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its > distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute > must > include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained > within such NOTICE file, excluding those notices that do not > pertain to any part of the Derivative Works, in at least one > of the following places: within a NOTICE text file > distributed > as part of the Derivative Works; within the Source form or > documentation, if provided along with the Derivative Works; > or, > within a display generated by the Derivative Works, if and > wherever such third-party notices normally appear. The > contents > of the NOTICE file are for informational purposes only and > do not modify the License. You may add Your own attribution > notices within Derivative Works that You distribute, > alongside > or as an addendum to the NOTICE text from the Work, provided > that such additional attribution notices cannot be construed > as modifying the License. > > Since I'm not going to distribute the source (b) and (c) are not > applicable for me, right? > The problem and main question is in (d) condition: where should I > display NOTICE file? > > Is it ok and enough to add something like this to my about dialog: > > Licenses info-> > Part of this application uses software licensed under the Apache > License, Version 2.0 > Apache License, Version 2.0 license: > [Apache License Version 2.0 text here] > > The Android Open Source Project NOTICE: > [Apache License Version 2.0 NOTICE content here] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
