Mentors? I could use some help with the NOTICE and LICENSE files please. Carol
On 5/18/12 3 :41PM, "Carol Frampton" <cfram...@adobe.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I did some work on the NOTICE and LICENSE files this afternoon. I'd >appreciate it if you could take a quick look and provide feedback on what >doesn't look right or is the wrong format, what's missing etc? > >The LICENSE file goes into the source distribution. >The LICENSE.bin file gets concatenated to the LICENSE file for the binary >distribution. > >Questions > > 1. If we incorporate code into our project that is from another Apache >project covered by an Apache v2 license do we still call out that we've >taken the code or does the Apache license at the top of the LICENSE file >cover all Apache code, not just Flex code? > 2. Same question, but we're incorporating code covered by an Apache 1.1 >license. > 3. Many of the jars we use have their own LICENSE and NOTICE files. >Right now they are all in the lib directory right next to their jar. >I've seen other projects put them all in a legal, LICENSE or NOTICE >directory. What is the proper way to organize these and how do you refer >to them in the Apache Flex LICENSE file? > 4. If we include a jar that includes other stuff and has NOTICES and >LICENSES from its dependencies to we pull them all up into our LICENSE? >I've seen lots of questions about this and I still don't understand what >the right way to do this is. > >Depending on the answers to the above questions I'm sure I still need to >make some changes to get everything right. > >If you know of any projects that you think are good examples I would be >happy to take a look. Last time I tried to look for examples I didn't >find a consistent way of doing things so I couldn't tell what was the >preferred way. > >Carol > >http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/flex/trunk/NOTICE?view=markup >http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/flex/trunk/LICENSE?view=markup >http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/flex/trunk/LICENSE.bin?view=markup
