> On Jan 12, 2021, at 10:42 AM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2021, Andreas Beeker wrote:
>> do we really need that long LICENSE file?
>>
>> Junit / Jacoco and few others aren't necessary to run POI and only used to
>> build it.
>>
>> Do utility libraries need to be included in the official LICENSE file?
>
> If we ship them we need to detail them
Exactly.
>
>> May we create an additional LICENSE file for development with POI.
>
> I seem to recall that some projects do have different license files for their
> source and binary releases, to account for the different components at build
> and run time
Yes. Since it has been sometime since we reviewed Licensing. It is important to
do so.
>
> The best advice on license files at the ASF can be normally found in the
> Incubator, as they're always helping new incoming projects get it right. If
> you can't get a clear answer from reading the stuff at
> <https://www.apache.org/dev/#licenses> and
> <https://infra.apache.org/licensing-howto.html> I'd suggest ping'ing
> general@incubator and asking one of the experts there for a hand!
I have mentored many podlings in the Incubator.
Let’s start with an audit to generate three lists:
(1) What added code do we currently include in our codebase.
(2) What are the dependencies in our builds. What is brought in - not our build
tools.
(3) What is included in our binaries. (2) and (3) should be the same, but ...
Once we have those lists we review what licenses and notices are required. We
then revisit our LICENSE and NOTICE files, and we will decide if we should have
a separate LICENSE and NOTICE for binary releases.
What are the current build instructions for trunk?
Regards,
Dave
>
> Nick
>
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