My apologies if this is 'off topic', but what is the consensus with
regard to licence and copyright if log4net is used in an application I
am involved with? The application is not a derived work as described by
the Apache licence, it just uses log4net to record events during the
application's use ("the user did this or that", etc). I am not a lawyer
so the meaning of some of the terms in the Apache licence is a little
unclear to me.Is it sufficient to - place a ReadMe on the application's installation CD that is copied across with the application installation, the Readme containing a notice that the application uses log4net which is published under the Apache licence, with a URL link to the licence itself? Or - instead of the link should we include the entire Apache licence in the ReadMe document, or - is there something else we must do to satisfy the terms of the Apache licence? As far as I can see the requirement to 'attach' the licence to the software would be satisfied by placing it on the CD as I have described and copying it across to sit in the application folder on the host machine. Is that thinking correct? Is there a URL that will take me to a document explaining in simple English the minimum I have to do to comply? TIA Neil Haughton
