I'm working through adding them. - chip
Sent from my iPhone. On Sep 25, 2012, at 5:25 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> 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
