Dear all (especially mentors), could you please have a look at the updated LICENSE and NOTICE files? I now took a very different approach following more-or-less what Apache Geronimo and Apache ODE are doing: - the NOTICE file contains attribution for all 3rd party software bundled in the respective distribution, a full copy of the 3rd party NOTICE file (if it exists), and a pointer to its source code - the LICENSE file contains a list of licenses (full-text) for reference
I think this complies fully with the requirements detailled in http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html . The only issue might be that it is too extensive. However, most licenses anyways require some form of attribution (especially also the Apache License), so it is easier to include all of them in the same way. In those cases where this is not strictly required, it is just fair towards the authors to mention them anyways :) The extensive NOTICE files will only be relevant in the binary distributions, because they bundle many 3rd party libraries. The source distribution NOTICE will only mention the Javascript and Java source files that we include in our source tree. The purpose of this approach is as follows: if someone wants to use and redistribute one of the distributions, regardless whether it is the source or one of the binary distributions, he needs to be aware of the copyrights of bundled libraries. So he can go to the NOTICE file and check there for any license that might conflict with his intentions. The NOTICE file mentions the copyright holders and licenses of all the bundled software, as well as pointers to the respective source code repositories (to know where it comes from) and (in case it exists) the content of the referred project's NOTICE file. In case he wants more details about the license, its full text can be looked up in the LICENSE file. Could you please check the following distributions at http://people.apache.org/~sschaffert/: - apache-marmotta-3.0.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT-src.zip - apache-marmotta-3.0.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT-webapp.zip The -ldpath distribution is not yet updated (it will be mostly a subset of the webapp). The -installer distribution is mostly the same as the -webapp, but contains in addition Apache Tomcat and IzPack. I am currently uploading, so it might be available only in a few minutes. :) Greetings, Sebastian
