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Sean Busbey commented on VFS-611:
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We have to reproduce whatever parts of the NOTICE file are relevant. If the Day
Software part isn't (and it sounds like it isn't), then all we need to do is
make sure our NOTICE file has an appropriate copyright year span. If this file
showed up in JackRabbit in 2009, then our current range of 2002 - present
should cover it.
If we're not going to call out the file as having provenance from outside of
our project in NOTICE, then we should make a note in the file itself about the
above so that in the future folks reviewing things don't have to deduce this
for themselves. Perhaps a expanding the "copied from" note to include a
reference to this JIRA?
> Clarify NOTICE is not required for JcrUtils from JackRabbit
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> Key: VFS-611
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-611
> Project: Commons VFS
> Issue Type: Task
> Affects Versions: 2.1
> Reporter: Stian Soiland-Reyes
> Assignee: Stian Soiland-Reyes
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 2.1
>
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> In reviewing an RC for Apache Commons VFS 2.1
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/Zjouqd6cpmohrj3
> we wondered about a file
> https://github.com/apache/commons-vfs/blob/trunk/core/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/webdav/test/JcrUtils.java
> which we have adapted from Jackrabbit 2.4.0.
> Jackrabbit has a NOTICE which includes
> > Based on source code originally developed by
> > Day Software (http://www.day.com/).
> Looking at the git history
> https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit/commits/trunk/jackrabbit-jcr-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/commons/JcrUtils.java
> I think this file was earliest added in JackRabbit in 2009 by Jukka Zitting:
> https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit/commit/0882a5cc1ed4ce1cf9d3c6b3a592f97c5772ce25
> (first released in 1.6.0 and 2.0-alpha1 )
> We believe that as this file was added 3 years after graduating from the
> Incubator it is not covered by the "Day Software" NOTICE requirement and is
> just made by Apache Software Foundation - in which case no special
> self-attribution is needed in VFS's NOTICE file.
> I've asked on dev@jackrabbit just to verify:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/Zk01ufa8icmfvo8
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