Thanks for the quick reply, Nick. I was able to find the rules for 3rd Party software by following your reference, still I miss the part, where a 3rd party is required to have a source header (or the minimum set of locations of license and/or precedence) within http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html
Does anyone has a pointer? Thanks in advance, Svante Am 14.10.2013 12:45, schrieb Nick Burch: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Svante Schubert wrote: >> Am 14.10.2013 12:31, schrieb Svante Schubert: >>> I am no source code expert, IMHO I believe the pom.xml reference should >>> be sufficient, but there might be a codex or legal guideline for >>> copyright. Is there one? >> The above as separate question. >> I am aware of the following three places for copyright, what if they are >> contradicting, is there an order, or evensome legal guideline in the web >> and/or for Apache? > > Rules for Apache are stricter than most other code hosting locations. > However, these rules at Apache make life much easier and simpler for > downstream users, and avoids the confusion that you're currently > facing trying to use someone else's code! > >> 1) Source Header - Is there an URL allowed or does it have to be full >> text. Does it have to be in the beginning? >> 2) Root level of the project - is the name of the file always >> LICENSE.TXT >> 3) Pom.xml some projects are loaded from the web. I have trusted this >> alone. What are the precedences? > > For an ASF project, see the links under > http://www.apache.org/dev/#licenses . Basic answer is that for an > official ASF project, it needs to be the full header, there needs to > be a LICENSE + NOTICE file (.txt extension optional), and the POM (for > java projects) needs to list the license details and organisation too > (often done by inheriting from the Apache parent pom) > > Nick
