On 11/05/2011 07:30 AM, Ross Gardler wrote:
On 5 November 2011 14:01, Scott Wilson<[email protected]> wrote:
On 5 Nov 2011, at 10:51, Ate Douma wrote:
On Nov 5, 2011 11:29 AM, "Scott Wilson"<[email protected]>
wrote:
So is the omission that:
1. a copy of the BSD and MIT licenses must also be transcluded
This. AFAIK the 0.9.0 release did this already correct.
OK just to be 100% clear...
We need a generic copy of the BSD license text, and a generic copy of the MIT
license text?
Just thinking these will not then include the copyright notice of the specific
code being reused. Or is that covered by the link to the original project?
Follow Ate's lead on this as he has been far more rigorous in his
checks so we'll do it his way.
I'm happy to sort this out - I think Paul needs a break :-)
Paul - it's a thankless task as anyone who has cut an early release
knows. Thank you for your efforts, we are almost there.
(Also: Is the "licenses" folder in trunk obsolete?)
My own preferred way of doing licence management is to have a file in
the licences folder with the name of the library it applies to (e.g.
"FooBar_license.txt") this means that to do an audit you just count
the number of files in that directory and compare it with the number
of third party libraries. NOTICE simply requires a reference to each
third party library that requires an entry (not all do).
However, under Ate's guidance we seem to have gone in a different
direction. As I mention above, it's best to follow his lead here as he
is clearly putting a great deal of effort into checking releases for
us.
I'm happy to provide 'guidance' here, but note that the only thing I do is
trying to follow the Incubator Release Management guidelines themselves.
So, please *do* check those yourself as well ;)
With regards to what and where to put the 3rd party LICENSE texts, the Incubator
Release Management is nowadays quite specific in this regard (see also [1]):
Apache projects may distribute artifacts and documents as part of a release
which are not Apache Licensed. All such artifacts must comply with Apache's
3rd party licensing policy.
All the licenses on all the files to be included within a package should be
included in the LICENSE document. [...] The Apache License is at the top of
the LICENSE document. After that, the license for each non-Apache licensed
component is included, along with a clear explanation of which files that
license applies to.
The NOTICE document is for additional copyright and attribution statements
those licenses may require. A typical NOTICE document at a minimum includes a
copyright and attribution statement for The Apache Software Foundation.
Nothing else belongs in the NOTICE document.
And they give links to two good examples (HTTPD) how to do this (see online).
[1]
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#best-practice-license
Ross
