On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bertrand wrote: >>> 5) Is the notice in ext.org.json.simple/NOTICE.txt really required? >>> Unless I missed something, http://code.google.com/p/json-simple/ >>> doesn't seem to require it. >> Isn't it just good practice to indicate the source of copyright owner >> of included code in NOTICE.txt? The json simple one seems >> unnecessarily verbose though. > > No, the NOTICE file should only list *required* notices, as it puts a > burden on whoever might redistribute the code. So if you have some > cleanup to do anyway, you could minimize that one unless what's in > there is required. Ok, so as json simple is apache licensed without notice file we should not mention them. (Don't quite understand the logic of the apache license which allows the content of the notice to alternatively be included in the documentation or other places, and if this is the case a derivate of the derivate no longer has the content of the notice).
I'll remove the suff from the file. Cheers, Reto
