Well, I understand it differently and Thomas (probably looking at other
projects) did this too:
- LICENSE.txt contains the terms under which the software is licensed.
This is Apache License 2.0
- NOTICE contains attributions to included code and the licenses that
it is included under. Some projects choose to reference "foo.LICENSE"
files for "foo". Some choose to put the appropriate licensess into
the NOTICE file. Yet others put these (third party) licenses into the
LICENSE file.
All of the above are ok IMHO. I personally have a preference for the
first variant. httpd uses the second. I think FOP uses the third.
Best regards
Henning
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 15:24 -0700, Henri Yandell wrote:
> On 5/27/07, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 27/05/07, Henning Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The license under which the code gets licensed to our end users is in
> > > LICENSE.txt.
> > >
> > > Copyright notices and optional third-party licenses under which the code
> > > got licensed to us is in NOTICE.
> >
> > Are you sure?
> >
> > That does not seem to agree with the sample NOTICE file:
> >
> > http://www.apache.org/licenses/example-NOTICE.txt
> >
> > Nor does it seem to agree with the way that httpd use the NOTICE and
> > LICENSE files:
> >
> > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/
> >
> > As I understand it, the NOTICE file is for attributions.
> > The LICENSE file is for licenses.
> > These may either be included inline, or in separate files referenced
> > from the main LICENSE file.
>
> That's how I understand it too.
>
> Hen
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