And: why does this have to be so difficult? Between the NOTICE and the LICENSE it is very clear who own the copyright to - and which license applies to - the fonts. What more can one want, or why would you do less, given that the fonts are open source?
EdB On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > Nope. You lost me completely. Shall I revert and leave it to the experts? > Or can you tell me what to change, without explaining why, please? > > EdB > > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/19/14, 11:35 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: >> >> >I followed some of the other 'external' licenses, which have a copy of >> the >> >license in LICENSE (with a sentence explaining to what it applies) and >> the >> >original copy right claims of the authors in NOTICE (with a mention of >> the >> >applicable license). I have just committed my changes, feel free to >> review >> >those. >> >> I did look. My understanding of the rules is that some licenses tell the >> author to add their copyright to the license text, and in those cases, I >> think we’re not supposed to modify the license text to separate out the >> copyrights into the NOTICE file. Instead, just use a pointer in LICENSE >> (i.e., tell folks where to find the third-party license file) which is how >> I’d told the FlatSpark folks to do it, or copy the whole third-party >> license with the copyrights into LICENSE which is sort of what happened in >> Squiggly. >> >> It is the Apache policy that has us move copyrights for donated code to >> NOTICE. >> >> And in the case where the license requires attribution but no attribution >> is in the LICENSE like the CameronMusic sound, we mentioned the creator in >> the NOTICE. >> >> -Alex >> >> > > > -- > Ix Multimedia Software > > Jan Luykenstraat 27 > 3521 VB Utrecht > > T. 06-51952295 > I. www.ixsoftware.nl > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
