Our project LICENSE.txt file is just for the Apache 2.0 license text. Other mentions go in the NOTICE.txt file.
For example, see Apache Commons Codec's NOTICE.txt file: Apache Commons Codec Copyright 2002-2016 The Apache Software Foundation This product includes software developed at The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). src/test/org/apache/commons/codec/language/DoubleMetaphoneTest.java contains test data from http://aspell.net/test/orig/batch0.tab. Copyright (C) 2002 Kevin Atkinson (kev...@gnu.org) =============================================================================== The content of package org.apache.commons.codec.language.bm has been translated from the original php source code available at http://stevemorse.org/phoneticinfo.htm with permission from the original authors. Original source copyright: Copyright (c) 2008 Alexander Beider & Stephen P. Morse. --- Gary On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org > wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gilles [mailto:gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] > > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 04:41 > > To: dev@commons.apache.org > > Subject: Re: [RNG] License text location(s) (Was: [jira] RNG-18 [...]) > > > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:44:27 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > > Le 22/09/2016 à 13:24, Gilles a écrit : > > > > > >> The fact is that we don't distribute the original code (in C) > > >> but a Java port (that has undergone several transformations). > > > > > > That's still a derivative from the original code. > > > > Sure, but my point is that if release source then we already > > comply with the author's request by copying their copyright > > note in the Java source file. > > > > > > > > > > >> It is confusing to read at times that "Apache only releases sources" > > >> and > > >> at other that we also release binaries... > > > > > > I agree, I understand this motto as "We don't have to release > > > binaries > > > if we don't want to". > > > > OK; in that case, we do release binaries and have to put another > > copy of the copyright notice... > [orcmid] > > My understanding is that, for Apache, "release" is reserved for Source > Code although <<http://apache.org/dev/release.html> although > non-distributions are also producible and always built from a released > source however. > > Diligence with respect to IP in binaries that come as project > distributions still applies, including handling of LICENSE and NOTICE, only > this time specific to the distribution. There may be more about that. > > > > > > > Gilles > > > > > > > > Emmanuel Bourg > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
