On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:17 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> PING

I'd also like to see this addressed.  Licensing documentation for Incubator
sample code should adhere to best practices.

> On 28 November 2015 at 22:59, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 28 November 2015 at 16:26,  <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> +The following components included on this website are distributed under 
>>> MIT license :
>>> +
>>> +- Jekyll
>>> +- Jekyll Bootstrap
>>> +- Bootstrap
>>> +- jQuery
>>> +
>>> +The MIT License (MIT):
>>> +
>>> +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a 
>>> copy
>>> +of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to 
>>> deal
>>> +in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the 
>>> rights
>>> +to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
>>> +copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
>>> +furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>>> +
>>> +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 
>>> all
>>> +copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>>> +
>>> +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
>>> +IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
>>> +FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
>>> +AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
>>> +LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING 
>>> FROM,
>>> +OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN 
>>> THE
>>> +SOFTWARE.
>>> +
>>> +
>>
>> The LICENSE looks OK.

+1, it's OK, though I'd make one suggestion.

The addition of the MIT license text minus the copyright notice (the intent is
clearly to generalize so that it applies to 4 different dependencies) is a bit
irregular.  The copyright notice is an integral part of the MIT license --
it's actually a license template and is only completed when the copyright
notice has the owner filled in.

    http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

To addresss the irregularity, I'd suggest either prepending the template line
`Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>` -- or simply omitting the text of
the MIT license, instead including filepath pointers to where the deps
can be found in the distro.

>>> http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/apache-website-template/blob/9e881e24/NOTICE
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..a4fed15
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/NOTICE
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
>>
>> The ASF Copright header is missing
>>
>> See http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice
>>

+1

Just the copyright notice, i.e. this:

  Apache [PRODUCT_NAME]
  Copyright [yyyy] The Apache Software Foundation

Actually, what should "[PRODUCT_NAME]" be in this case?

>>> +This product includes software developed at
>>> +The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
>>> +
>>
>> That paragraph is OK
>>
>>> +This product uses Jekyll software (http://jekyllrb.com/)
>>> +Copyright (c) 2008-2015 Tom Preston-Werner
>>> +
>>> +This product includes Boostrap software (http://getbootstrap.com/)
>>> +Copyright (c) 2011-2015 Twitter, Inc
>>> +
>>> +This product includes jQuery software (http://jquery.com/)
>>> +Copyright jQuery Foundation and other contributors, https://jquery.org/
>>
>> AFAICT these 3 attributions are NOT necessary for MIT licensed code, see
>>
>> http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps

+1, those should definitely be removed.

Marvin Humphrey

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