On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote: > ...Also, does anyone know how the DEPENDENCIES and NOTICES files interact? The > policy <http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice> seems to indicate > that the NOTICE file needs eg CDDL notice sections no matter if there's a > DEPENDENCIES file or not. However, from my initial reading of the underlying > requirements, it would seem that everything we'd need to say is said by > DEPENDENCIES. Anyone know if this is one for Chemistry to fix, or one to > punt over to the legal list for a possible documentation tweak?...
I think the key point in http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice is that NOTICE is for *required* third-party notices, so it should be as small as possible and contain only notices that the owners of third-party code require. See also the discussion at [1], involving Roy with his Apache License author hat on. -Bertrand [1] http://markmail.org/message/cxwtnuys65c7hs2y
