HI Marvin, As usual, thanks for the useful review.
We will revise the LICENSE and NOTICE files in MetaModel podling dev list and come back for VOTE. - Henry On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Do you think it is a blocker for the release for the NOTICE file extra >> lines of information? > > In the NOTICE file in the release candidate, the last three lines with content > are... > > Portions of this software were originally based on the following: > > Copyright 2010-2013 Human Inference Enterprise B.V. > > These have been licensed to the Apache Software Foundation under a > software grant. > > The committer who added those lines is Kaspar Sørenson, who works for Human > Inference. If Human Inference wants that copyright notice, it's here to stay. > (Nobody else should mess with it now that it's there -- modifying copyright > notices is potentially illegal.) The last line about the software grant is > superfluous and IMO ought to be removed -- but it is innocuous and does not > block release. > > The LICENSE file, however, contains many licenses which do not apply to the > source package. The extraneous licenses are for jar files which will be > bundled with a binary, but that is not what the ASF releases. > > The extra material in the LICENSE file should ordinarily block if this were a > TLP release. However, what we have here is a licensing documentation bug, not > a legal issue which would put the Foundation at risk, and I think Incubator > lenience should come into play. > > I'm going to lodge a binding -1 vote for now, but I am willing to remove it if > the MetaModel podling presents a plan for fixing up LICENSE in their next > release. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
