Tongue in cheek. ;) More poking fun at my lack of knowledge in this area. :P
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: > I wouldn't think of this as being "some java thing"... ;-) Whisker's > turning out to be really helpful as a simple command line tool for > generating our legal docs from a more structured source > (tools/whisker/descriptor.xml) > > For CloudStack, we have so many integration points and external > libraries, it was much nicer to have a structured way to define > everything. > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > > 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 > -- NS
