On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Personally I don't believe whirr is in error. Voldemort is under >>> Apache 2.0 license, and as such falls under this: >>> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#required-third-party-notices >> >> See paragraph 4.4 of Apache License ver 2.0. >> If Voldemort contains a NOTICE file, then it must be carried forward. >> If it doesn't, IMHO you should have an entry in NOTICE that says the >> work contains the Voldemort component. > > Hm, it does have a notice, it's pretty big/hairy: > https://github.com/voldemort/voldemort/blob/master/NOTICE > > perhaps you can help me understand this a bit better, 4.4 addresses > "Derivative Works", which afaict whirr is not: > > ""Derivative Works" shall mean any work, whether in Source or Object > form, that is based on (or derived from) the Work and for which the > editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications > represent, as a whole, an original work of authorship. For the > purposes of this License, Derivative Works shall not include works > that remain separable from, or merely link (or bind by name) to the > interfaces of, the Work and Derivative Works thereof." > > as whirr is "merely linking to the interfaces of" the work (whirr > pulls in the jar file of/from voldemort) and not making any > revision/annotation/....modifications of the original. Am I not > reading that right? (IANAL)
Perhaps I did read that wrong. The "derivative work" here being the voldemort jar, however I still wonder about the second part related to "excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works". (the following) > > I also notice in 4.4 where is says "excluding those notices that do > not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works". Given that whirr is > only including a single jar - from voldemort itself, not > jetty/junit/etc... would it not be correct to say that these other > notices do not pertain to whirr's use? > > Thanks! > > Patrick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
