That's good news. :-) Thanks for looking into it Till and Stephan.

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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."
>>

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