Jeen, I very much sympathize with your feelings on the notice being misleading; I was told to do it this way as well.
RE your second question, the format; my project, Spatial4j, graduated from incubation with a notice in Markdown format. Feel free to take it: https://github.com/locationtech/spatial4j/blob/master/notice.md ~ David On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 4:57 PM Jeen Broekstra <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am struggling a bit with applying the requirements as set out in > https://eclipse.org/legal/guidetolegaldoc.php to the technology.rdf4j > project. > > First of all, the guide says that including the standard SUA in the > project root > as "notice.html" is required. > > However, the standard SUA is very much EPL-based and seems written from the > perspective of the main Eclipse IDE project. I appreciate that it says > "unless > otherwise indicated", and that I can indicate (by adding an about file and > a > license file) that we operate on a different license (EDL, in our case). > Nevertheless, including it in the project root in this fashion is bound to > confuse potential users, and likely to cause the (incorrect) perception > that > rdf4j is EPL-licensed, or dual-licensed. > > Should I just accept that confusion and include it as-is, or can I leave > it out? > As the guide says, the main purpose of the SUA is merely to say that > "unless > otherwise indicated EPL applies", and since EPL _doesn't_ apply to our > project, > it seems pointless to include it. > > Second question: the guide emphasizes in several places that the included > legal > files (the about file, the license, and the SUA) must be included as html > files. > Is this really a hard requirement? The reason I ask is that plain text (or > Markdown) would make viewing these documents on GitHub a lot easier. > > > Thanks, > > Jeen > > _______________________________________________ > incubation mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/incubation > -- Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
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