LICENSE and NOTICE files are quite often pointed out when doing release 
verification on general@incubator, so I would recommend fixing that even though 
that the linked [1] document contains “should” instead of “must”. We might be 
able to defend that, but it will most certainly lead to unnecessary discussions 
and delays.

ASLv2 have a special clause under “redistribution” section for NOTICE file [2] 
that requests derivative works to also include the relevant portions of our 
notice file. Hence having proper ASF copyright seems like a good idea.

Just my 2 cents :)

Jarcec

Links:
1: http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice
2: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#redistribution

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 6:02 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hm, good catch. I'm not sure if this is a release blocker, though -- the
> page you cite says "should" and not "MUST". The only "must" for notice is
> that anything that is legally required, but I don't believe that string of
> text is legally required.
> 
> Any mentors with more licensing experience want to weigh in here? Is this
> something that we can address in our next release, or should we restart the
> vote with this fixed?
> 
> -Todd
> 
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I did the following:
>> 
>> 1. Checked the .asc sig (looks good)
>> 2. Built the source. I ran into the issue with gold that Todd identified. I
>> think it's unfortunate that we're not compatible with gold (we typically
>> are), but agree that it's not a release blocker. After switching to GNU ld
>> I was able to rebuild thirdparty, then build Kudu. All of the tests passed.
>> 3. Quickly looked through the LICENSE.txt file and it looks good to me.
>> 4. Checked the NOTICE.txt file. It doesn't appear to comply with
>> http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice so I submitted a patch for
>> that at http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/2108 ... I think this may be a
>> release blocker.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> We're happy to announce the first release candidate for Apache Kudu
>>> (incubating) 0.7.0.
>>> 
>>> The is a source-only release. The artifacts were staged here:
>>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/kudu/0.7.0-RC1/
>>> 
>>> It was built from this tag:
>>> 
>>> 
>> https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-kudu.git;a=commit;h=2e28d1aec47d86eba15b4ba3d8b40b34c410ca8a
>>> 
>>> The list of all issues fixed is found following this link
>>> <
>>> 
>> https://issues.cloudera.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20Kudu%20AND%20status%20in%20
>>> (Resolved)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%200.7.0%20ORDER%20BY%20key%20ASC>.
>>> 
>>> The release notes are found here (linking to github for prettier
>> printing):
>>> 
>>> 
>> https://github.com/cloudera/kudu/blob/0.7.0-RC1/docs/release_notes.adoc#release-notes-specific-to-0-7-0
>>> 
>>> KEYS file:
>>> http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/kudu/KEYS
>>> 
>>> I'd suggest going through the README, building Kudu, and running the unit
>>> tests.
>>> 
>>> Please try the release and vote; vote will be open for at least 72 hours.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> J-D
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Todd Lipcon
> Software Engineer, Cloudera

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