On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:38 AM, J Aaron Farr<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon 17 Aug 2009 10:20, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:04 AM, David Crossley<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The NOTICE file is not for that purpose. Did you mean to >>> say that you have seen "LICENSE" files containing pointers? >> >> No, I don't mean LICENSE... IIRC (it was not yesterday), the NOTICE >> file would contain something like; >> >> "Portions of this software contains Foo from Bar Foundation, which is >> under the Abc license. See licenses/license.foo" > > That's only necessary if the ABC license requires attribution similar to > the Apache license. The NOTICE file is *not* for notifications about > other licenses. The NOTICE file is for required attributions as > specified in the Apache license.
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#3party notes that it should include relocated copyright attributions (if there are any) > You can put all the licenses or references to the licences in the > LICENSE file. AIUI this is only best practice, not normative. every third party library MUST have a license but including them next to the appropriate artifact (rather than collecting them together) is ok but not recommended. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
