I talked to Stephan and he pointed out that the flink-dist binary file, which is Flink's fat jar, is not part of the official Flink release. We do offer to download this file as part of a zip file from the Flink website. However, this is only for convenience. In contrast to that, other binary files, such as the jars which are released on maven-central, are part of the official release. Consequently, these files must contain appropriate LICENSE and NOTICE files. If I remember correctly, then this is relevant for modules which shade dependencies away, because the shaded dependency is then contained in the jar.
That was also the reason why we removed the license entries for all the dependencies contained in flink-dist. Given that this reasoning is sound, we can keep the LICENSE and NOTICE file as it is modulo the changes we introduced between Flink 1.0 and 1.1. On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hmm, this sounds like we should also have a proper LICENSE/NOTICE for our > > binary releases. > > True... to quote the linked ASF page: "As far as LICENSE and NOTICE > are concerned, only bundled bits matter." >
