On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Karl Pauls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Carsten Ziegeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Jukka Zitting wrote:
>>>> b) Should we include "Copyright (c) 2002 JSON.org" in trunk/NOTICE?
>>>>
>>> Hmm, Roy says we don't have to (at least this is what I understood during
>>> the whole discussion) - but lets add it.
>>
>> I think we still need to keep the attribution as far as I understand
>> his last mail...
>
> This is also my understanding, i.e. we should include the attribution in 
> NOTICE.
>
>>>> d) Many of the generated bundles don't have complete NOTICE files (for
>>>> example commons.log doesn't mention SLF4J even though SLF4J classes
>>>> are included), but I wouldn't treat that as a blocker as the bundles
>>>> are secondary release artifacts and the required information is still
>>>> available in the LICENSE.* files.
>>>
>>> Great. Again these are things where Roy said we don't need them.
>>
>> Again, I think for the binaries we do need the attribution and the
>> LICENSE files because we don't embed the complete jar's. We only
>> include some of the code -- hence, the original NOTICE and LICENSE
>> files are not included in the resulting artifact and needs to be added
>> by us.
>
> We already explicitly included the LICENSE file (LICENSE.slf4j in the
> example), so the question is whether we also need to include the
> copyright attribution in NOTICE. It's essentially the same question as
> above with JSON: should the copyright attribution go to NOTICE even if
> the third party license doesn't mandate where in a release the
> attribution should be?

I think attribution should go in the NOTICE. Not doing that is
confusing and really blurs the distinction between LICENSE and NOTICE
file imo.

regards,

Karl

> The source header and copyright notice policy says: "The remainder of
> the NOTICE file is to be used for required third-party notices."
> (http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice)
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>



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