On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:06:33 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Bourg [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Bourg Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 10:34 To: Commons Developers List <[email protected]>Subject: Re: [RNG] License text location(s) (Was: [jira] RNG-18 [...])Le 22/09/2016 à 19:09, Gary Gregory a écrit :> Our project LICENSE.txt file is just for the Apache 2.0 license text.> > Other mentions go in the NOTICE.txt file. That's my understanding too, but there are many counter-examples: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/blob/trunk/LICENSE#L180 https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/LICENSE#L205 https://github.com/apache/lucene- solr/blob/master/lucene/LICENSE.txt#L212 https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/LICENSE.txt#L205 https://github.com/apache/hbase/blob/master/LICENSE.txt#L205 https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/master/LICENSE.txt#L205
And Commons Math, obviously, since I copied "LICENCE.txt" from there. See http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/elicense.html Originally, the code was LGPL, and IIUC is used as such in Python. The site of MT's author references implementations in other languages a.o. in Java:http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/VERSIONS/JAVA/PATCH/MTRandom.java
And they do not carry the "required" notice!
We seem to be nit-picking quite heavily...
Is it a notice ("no warranty")?
Is it a license ("you are free to redistribute provided the notice
is kept")?
Regards,
Gilles
Emmanuel Bourg[orcmid] Yes, there is general consternation about this, especially on the incubator list. Here is one resource <http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html>. Note that [Required] Notices appear in NOTICE, not licenses. There are other places where this is being worked on. I don't have links handy. Here's an example that could be simplified by moving the detailed Copyright Notices (essentially licenses) to LICENSE.txt and simplifying the NOTICE file: <https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/big-data-discovery-cloud/BDDLG/cl_apache_commons_math_1_2.htm>. I am not a good source of advice about this. The go-to person on this topic appears to be Justin Mclean who can be found on legal-discuss@ and general-incubator@ on these matters.--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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