On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Les Hazlewood <lhazlew...@apache.org> wrote:
> I started by copying-and-pasting bits of the source code shown on the
> website, so our mentors recommended that we get his permission last
> year just in case, which is why that statement is included in the
> existing notice file.  As long as the URL for his website remains (his
> 'attribution clause' requested of us), we can remove anything else.

Yes, assumed so. Rephrased the wording as suggested and committed a new version.

>> The Spring source notice is equally straight-forwarded. Spring is
> That line was in there originally because I thought there was an
> attribution requirement by Spring, but I double-checked and that only
> applies to us redistributing their *documentation*.  We're definitely
> not doing that, so we can move that part entirely.

Right, I kept the Spring notice there but rephrased. Both serve more
as courtesy notices as well as for copyrights, which is the primary
purpose of the NOTICE file AFAIK.

Kalle

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