On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 12:15 +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > On 29 Aug 2014, at 10:18, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 22:34 +0100, sebb wrote: > >> On 28 August 2014 20:32, Asankha C. Perera <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >>> I think that is the legal text.. but for the NOTICE file we could possibly > >>> use just the following two lines to keep it short? > >>> > >>> > >>> // Any copyright is dedicated to the Public Domain. > >>> // http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ > >>> > >> > >> That would not be sufficient, as it is not clear to what the lines refer. > >> > >> However, we should not add anything to NOTICE unless it is _required_. > >> This does not appear to be the case here. > >> > >> NOTICE is for _required_ attributions. > >> > > > > What does this mean in plain English? We apparently are not required to > > make a formal attribution to the original author. Can I go ahead and > > copy the test data to HC test code tree? > > > These things are not that black and white. > > Part of it is courtesy; part of it is leaving enough breadcrums for our peers > 20+ year later -and- for our end users when they need to sort through IP > issues. > > So I suggest that: > > - leave NOTICE as is - as it is for the more ‚you must read’ this > sort of things. > > - Add a section in the LICENSE file -OR- a extra file in the publicsuffic > directory in which you import the publicsuffix data which says > something like: > > " > These files/directory/XX have been included under a CC0 1.0 > Public Domain Dedication (url). The original can be found > at url. > „ > > And in any case - put a note in the release notes. Especially if you go down > the > path of just a file with the directory as opposed to something at the end > of the license file. > > That should make it easy for anyone to find the information reasonably easy; > without > cluttering things up too much. > > Thanks, > > Dw. > >
May all this licensing stuff burn in hell. I'll run the tests locally to make sure our implementation is compliant but will not commit the tests to the repository. Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
