Hi,

As the GCL (incorrectly) doesn’t have a NOTICE file there’s no need to add it 
to NOTICE [1] and as it Apache licensed there no need to add it to LICENSE [1]. 

However probably best in this case is to assume it had a generic NOTICE and 
just add something like this:
"This software contains code from the Google Closure Library, copyright Google 
XXXX”

My reasoning is that all of the bundled code, while Apache licensed, is not 
copyright the ASF and nor was it developed at Apache and it would be a bit 
cheeky to imply (by omission) that it was. Sadly the documentation at the 
licensing how to is a little unclear on how to add non ASF Apache licensed 
software, particularly when they are missing a NOTICE file.

Current versions of LICENSE/ NOTICE are probably not a release blockers, as 
having a little much info is more a documentation issue than an licensing 
error. Although it is best to try and keep NOTICE contents to a minimum.

Are any of the GCL MIT/BSD licensed bits included / bundled? Is so they will 
need need to be mentioned in LICENSE [2]

Thanks,
Justin

1. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#alv2-dep
2. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps

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