I think this is probably OK, it seems like these rules are not hard and fast.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Jim Donofrio <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok I will make the file NOTICE.txt contain the NOTICE.txt for the source
> distribution. I will leave the notice for the convenience binary at the root
> of the svn but call it BIN-NOTICE.txt to be clear that it is for the binary
> distribution. Is this ok?
>
> I took this example from Whirr, so maybe someone should let them know to
> also fix their distributions.
>
>
> On 04/04/2012 07:30 PM, sebb wrote:
>>
>> On 4 April 2012 15:33, Marvin Humphrey<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Brock Noland<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:33 AM, sebb<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The tag to be voted upon:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/mrunit/tags/release-0.9.0-incubating/
>>>>>
>>>>> There's a NOTICE.txt and NOTICE-src.txt at the top level.
>>>>>
>>>>> IMO the primary NOTICE file should be for the source.
>>>>>
>>>> So there would be a NOTICE-bin.txt and a NOTICE.txt?
>>>
>>> The Apache License 2.0 only makes mention of a "NOTICE" file, not
>>> "NOTICE-bin"
>>> (or "NOTICE-src").
>>>
>>> The top priority is that the NOTICE[.txt] file in the canonical source
>>> release
>>> be correct and complete.  That's what we're voting on and what the ASF is
>>> endorsing.
>>
>> +1
>>
>>> I haven't yet arrived at a position regarding the -bin/-deps situation.
>>>  At
>>> this point, I wouldn't -1 a source release that contains irrelevant and
>>> misleading information in a file called "NOTICE-bin.txt" about
>>> dependencies
>>> which are not present, but that could change.
>>
>> So long as the file is called NOTICE.txt (or NOTICE) and is at the
>> top-level of a binary archive, it does not matter what it is called in
>> SVN. To avoid confusion, probably best to rename or move the version
>> of the NOTICE file for binary releases. Since the binary file is just
>> an extended version of the source NOTICE file (at least in this case),
>> the binary version could be generated by concatenation.
>>
>>> Marvin Humphrey
>>>
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