On 4 July 2016 at 15:12, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm unsure about this, so asking here. > > There are a few notices in the NOTICE file for some AL/2 and MIT > licensed pieces of code. Should those simply be removed from the NOTICE > file, or is it fine if we keep them? > > Personally, I'm fine with keeping them there as a sort of thank you to > the projects/individuals that have contributed to parts of our project, > but if there's a policy against it, I'm okay with removing them.
I think at least it should clarify which files each attribution refer to. As it is now I can't reuse a single Javascript file from Ponymail without propagating that whole NOTICE, which is a bit excessive. Best practice [1] is that NOTICE should only include the *required* legal notices - which basically only covers Apache-licensed code that itself had a NOTICE file, and any attribution that ha MIT-license etc. should instead be mentioned by pointer in LICENSE: https://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps See a guide here by Justin Mclean https://vimeo.com/171210141 which uses the fictional ASF project https://github.com/justinmclean/ApacheWombat [1] https://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html -- Stian Soiland-Reyes Apache Taverna (incubating), Apache Commons http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
