Ah, some Java thing. Guess some of this is going to take some getting used to for me. ;) Thanks!
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Just been browsing through the JIRA tickets for the ongoing configuration > > licensing checks. Great work! > > > > I did just want to add that when we have established that a file is a > > derivative work (but we can keep it because the license is compatible) > then > > we do need to note this somewhere, along with author. Even if the file > has > > been placed into the public domain, or we have been given permission to > > include it. > > > > Here's an example of us being told that a configuration file can be > > regarded as being the public domain: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-146 > > > > To quote ASF policy[1]: > > > > "Many of these licenses have specific attribution terms that need to be > > adhered to, for example CC-A, often by adding them to the NOTICE file. > > Ensure you are doing this when including these works. [...] Works in the > > public domain (or covered by a license treated similarly) may be included > > within Apache products. Attribution is required (in a similar fashion to > > permissive licenses)." > > > > Perhaps something like this could be added to NOTICE: > > > > This product also includes the following third-party components: > > > > * vpcdnsmasq.conf (http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) > > > > Public domain, Simon Kelley > > > > And then for another file which actually retains copyright, we could add: > > > > * foo.conf (http://example.org/foo) > > > > Copyright 2012, Some Author > > > > This format is taken from: > > > > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=NOTICE;hb=HEAD > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > NS > > Noah, > > For completeness, we are using Apache Whisker to generate the LICENSE > and NOTICE files. For public domain items, the results of that > generation look like this (from the LICENSE file): > > Within the patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc directory > placed in the public domain > by Simon Kelley > dnsmasq.conf > vpcdnsmasq.conf > > -chip > -- NS
