On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Sept 2025 at 18:14, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sometime earlier this year, the trademark attribution sentences were
> > > dropped from the footer of generated component site pages. AFAIK,
> > > these are required, and must be present.

Looking at the PR, this does seem to be a general bug. That in this
case it drops the trademarks is simply a side effect= so it should be
fixed

> > What exactly is missing?
>
> Have a look at https://commons.apache.org/ and compare it with
> https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/
>
> > IANAL but I have a pretty strong suspicion
> > these are meaningly cargo cult legalese that is in no way required,
> > and we'd be better off without it.
>
> For rationale, see: https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs#attributions

Got it. Yes, that is the rule and it's also meaningless legalese. This
is Apache policy, and it's a pointless one.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elh...@ibiblio.org

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