On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:14 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, lets start with the minimum, which would be this (everything > between the ---): > > --- > Apache Tuscany > Copyright (c) 2005 - 2010 The Apache Software Foundation > > This product includes software developed at > The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). > --- >
Ok, +1... a good start... :) > What else needs to be in the file other than just that? I'm suggesting > nothing else is needed, and that all the stuff we have in there now is > not actually required by any legal requirement, license, or ASF > policy. > > Eg take the thing that comes next in the current file which is a > section about jsonrpc.js - there's no need for that as the copyright > is in the actual source file still and it should only be in the NOTICE > file if we delete the copyright from the jsonrpc.js file (which we > would only do with the permission of the copyright holder). This is > describe in point 2 at > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice. > > ...ant > Well, I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that notices from underlying dependencies (3rd party, etc) needs to be listed in the NOTICE file, and in the case of jsonrpc.js, we could remove it from the original source file if permitted by it's license, but we should have it in the notice. Anyway, I think the best solution here is to forward a link to legal-discuss and get some thoughts from the experts... -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
