Rob, It might work to have a single NOTICE version, as some of the Sun/Oracle distributions seemed to do in their THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME files.
E.g.,
The following software may be included in this product: Bitstram
Vera Fonts; Use of any of this software is governed by the terms
of the license below:
Bitstream, Inc.
Bitstream Vera Fonts
[ ... ]
The Font Software may be sold as part of a larger software package
but no copy of one or more of the Font Software typefaces may be
sold by itself.
[ ... ]
The following software may be included in this product: MS Runtime
Libraries; Use of any of this software is governed by the terms of
the license below:
Microsoft Corporation
Runtime Libraries
[ ... ]
I have no sense of whether that fits inside the Apache comfort zone for the
source-code release or it should be an expanded NOTICE that the build process
includes. The ones that are installed with the binary Sun/Oracle
distributions have that nice "may be included" (so long as not taken as
permission). This seems rather specific to the binary distribution.
I'm thinking that, in my own work, I will split them. The build script can
put the binary one together from the source one and a supplement that covers
build/platform-dependent run-time dependencies.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:06
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Apache Licensed Fonts (was Re: Font related questions)
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I welcome anyone who is willing to share the PITA burden concerning
> licensing, IP, terms-of-use, etc.
>
> With regard to the NOTICE file. In a binary release, yes. If the work is
> being embedded somehow and/or installed in some manner, the NOTICE that is
> included in the executable install location should include it. This applies
> to third-party category A also. Dependencies on the licenses of other are
> always acknowledged.
>
So do we need two versions, one for source releases and another for
the binary release?
-Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro Giffuni [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:36
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Apache Licensed Fonts (was Re: Font related questions)
>
> [ ... ]
>
> But I am not in the business of being a PITA for
> the project, I just think this has to be reviewed
> by legal.
>
> While here a general question: do we have to mention
> "Category-B" software in the NOTICE file?
> I say we shouldn't since we are not including any
> source code for that in in the SVN server or in
> the releases, we will just use the binaries if
> they are available.
>
> Pedro.
>
> Pedro.
>
>
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