hi Justin,

Thanks for voting.

We will take this opportunity to have a session learning the license issue
and make sure everyone know the verify process.


Thanks,
William
On behalf of Apache Griffin PPMC


On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Justin Mclean <justinmcl...@me.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> -1 for other reasons than stated by other people. i.e. the source file
> LICENSE file needs work.
>
> Although "unapproved licenses" is misleading as it’s just that those files
> don’t (and shouldn’t) have headers.
>
> I checked:
> - incubating in artefact name
> - signatures and hashes correct
> - LICENSE needs some work and incorrectly lists software that is not
> bundled in the source release [2]
> - NOTICE year is incorrect
>
> The start of the license file is a little odd, I suggest using the same
> format as other projects. "Notices for third-party software” is confusing
> as they usually go in the NOTICE file not the LICENSE file. You are also
> missing the full text of the Apache license.
>
> Please do not use URL pointers to licenses, while it useful to know where
> it come from so don’t remove them, these license can change over time or
> disappear. Pleas include the full text of the license in question in the
> release and point to that. [1] Note that for both MIT and B?SD this
> includes a copyright line so you can’t use the same text for all MIT or all
> BSD licenses, please don’t break this up as you have done here. I suggest
> you follow this [1]
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
> 1. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps
> 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#guiding-principle
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