Hi Justin,
Starting from the licensing howto
(http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#mod-notice), and
regarding what you said, it's not obvious to me, and a bit confusing.
Maybe, we can enhance a bit the licensing howto to be more "straight
forward", using some existing examples to illustrate how to proceed for
"newbies" (or even veterans ;)).
WDYT ?
Thanks,
Regards
JB
On 01/26/2016 08:46 AM, Justin Mclean wrote:
Hi,
1) In the case that we've borrowed code from another Apache 2.0 licensed
project, the licensing howto[1] says that there is no need to modify
LICENSE unless it transitively has dependencies with such a requirement.
That is the current policy yes so there is no need to list them.
Is this true even if the original dependency carries a copyright?
Yes. The copyright should be in a NOTICE file and if that exists need it needs
be be added to your NOTICE file. [1]
BTW bootstrap in now MIT not Apache so you may want to double check the
version/license you are using.
For example, we bundle Twitter's Bootstrap library and currently have
attribution in our
LICENSE file[2] indicating the copyright (even though it's also at the top
of the relevant files). Not necessary?
It’s not required under current policy, but there’s no harm in adding it.
2) In other cases we've bundled MIT or BSD-licensed source. The license
says that redistributions must retain the text of the license. Is it
sufficient that that text be only in the source code, or should we also
duplicate it into LICENSE.txt as we've done for code derived from
AsyncHBase? [3]
You should add the full text or better still a pointer to it. [2]
3) We have many thirdparty dependencies which are not "bundled" in the
source release. Instead, our build process has a script which downloads
them from the internet, unpacks, and compiles them. So, despite not being
part of the artifact itself, they are required components for the build
(and in most cases become static-linked into the binary). We currently list
all of these dependencies and their licenses in LICENSE.txt. Is this
necessary, or should we move these into a separate file?
Only items bundled should be mentioned in LICENSE/NOTICE. [3]
Thanks,
Justin
1. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#alv2-dep
2. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps
3. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#guiding-principle
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