On 31 March 2014 20:55, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:31 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> The jar files are also distributions and must therefore have embedded >>>> NOTICE and LICENSE files, e.g. in the META-INF directory. >>> >>> Does this warrant a new RC ? >> >> Yes, in my opinion. > > Though the ASF only releases source code and the binaries are the > responsibility of the party which supplies them, I think that failing to > propagate the contents of the NOTICE file (either from the Tez source release > or from any ALv2 dependencies which may supply NOTICE files) is technically a > violation of the ALv2 section 4d. Failing to supply the license itself in > META-INF I think violates 4a. > > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#redistribution > > a. You must give any other recipients of the Work or Derivative Works a > copy of this License; and > > [...] > > d. If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, > then any Derivative Works that You distribute must include a readable > copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file, > excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the > Derivative Works, in at least one of the following places: within a > NOTICE text file distributed as part of the Derivative Works; within > the Source form or documentation, if provided along with the > Derivative Works; or, within a display generated by the Derivative > Works, if and wherever such third-party notices normally appear. [...] > > The "wherever such third party notices normally appear" for jar files would be > META-INF. > > IANAL but it seems good for the party supplying the binaries to get this > right.
Note also that the Maven artifacts in the Nexus tree include source jars. See also http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#binary > 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
