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 > -- Karl Pauls [EMAIL PROTECTED]
