Sean Owen created SPARK-10833:
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Summary: Inline, organize BSD/MIT licenses in LICENSE
Key: SPARK-10833
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-10833
Project: Spark
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Build
Affects Versions: 1.5.0
Reporter: Sean Owen
Assignee: Sean Owen
In the course of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-226 it came to
light that the guidance at
http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps means that
permissively-licensed dependencies has a different interpretation than we (er,
I) had been operating under. "pointer ... to the license within the source
tree" specifically means a copy of the license within Spark's distribution,
whereas at the moment, Spark's LICENSE has a pointer to the project's license
in the *other project's* source tree.
The remedy is simply to inline all such license references (i.e. BSD/MIT
licenses) or include their text in "licenses" subdirectory and point to that.
Along the way, we can also treat other BSD/MIT licenses, whose text has been
inlined into LICENSE, in the same way.
The LICENSE file can continue to provide a helpful list of BSD/MIT licensed
projects and a pointer to their sites. This would be over and above including
license text in the distro, which is the essential thing.
I do not think this blocks a current release, since there's a good-faith
argument that the current practice satisfies the terms of the third-party
licenses as well. (If it didn't, this would be a blocker for any further
release.) However, of course it's better to follow the best practice going
forward.
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