On 16 May 2017 at 16:14, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Depending on license, you may also want or need to add something in your > NOTICE.txt file as well. Could be handy either way as a pointer to the > project whose algorithms this one is based on.
The NOTICE file is for *required* attributions only. Don't add anything to it that is not required. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#mod-notice > On 16 May 2017 at 09:11, Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > On May 16, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> > On 2017-05-16, Rob Tompkins wrote: >> > >> >> I’m currently working on an issue in the [math] codebase, and the >> suggested fix is to port some python code over to Java from scipy ( >> https://github.com/scipy/scipy <https://github.com/scipy/scipy>, >> https://scipy.org <https://scipy.org/>, license: BSD-3-clause). Clearly I >> can’t copy and paste their exact code in to our codebase as it’s python, >> but clearly I’m lifting their ideas. >> > >> >> So, what is and isn’t allowed in this case? Do I simply go through the >> exercise of porting the code over and make a reference or is there >> something else that I should do? >> > >> > I've been doing similar things in [compress] coming from C rather than >> > Python. My code is usually not a verbatim port but rather a Java rewrite >> > of the ideas of the original algorithm. >> > >> > AFAIU a straight port would be fine as well as the license is >> > compatible. You may want to keep pointers to the original code base and >> > license with your code. >> > >> >> Many thanks for that, >> -Rob >> >> > Stefan >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > 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 >> >> > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
