On Mar 21, 2008, at 4:57 PM, David Jencks wrote:
I'm trying to help out apacheds with their legal file goo... and
they like us have some copied bouncy castle code.
Ours is in framework/modules/geronimo-crypto. We have the bc
license copied in the LICENSE.txt file which looks good to me but we
also have this notice bit in NOTICE.txt:
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== Bouncy Castle
Notice ==
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This product includes software (the ASN1 codec in the
org.apache.geronimo.asn1
package) developed by the Bouncy Castle project. (http://www.bouncycastle.org/
)
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 The Legion Of The Bouncy Castle (http://www.bouncycastle.org
)
The license text:
The Bouncy Castle License
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 The Legion Of The Bouncy Castle (http://www.bouncycastle.org
)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software
and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the
Software without restriction,
including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom
the Software is furnished to do so,
subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial
portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE
OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
From the license it looks to me as if the NOTICE fragment is not
needed, only the license.
I think you are correct. I don't have a network connection at the
moment and I'd like to check on a few things... This is a slightly
different case than the norm, in that the we're not including BC
source, not just including a BC jar.
Copyright statements in our source should be moved to our NOTICE file
(If possible -- note that we can't just simply move someone else's
copyright statements -- the copyright holder must do that). I'm a bit
surprised that I'm not seeing any BC copyrights in our geronimo-crypto
source -- it's all AL2 licensed.
--kevan
I'm a little confused, however, because all of the geronimo-crypto
source files seem to have AL source license header. I'm guessing that
we might have improperly relicensed some of the files.
