For the sake of all of these discussions, are "bundled dependencies" and "work derived from other projects source code" 100% equivalent? In many cases we've copied (or ported) small bits of code from other projects and believe them to be 'derived work' from a copyright standpoint. My assumption is that there's no difference between that and "bundling" in which you are typically taking a release artifact as-is from another project.
-Todd On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > Yea, even after this thread I'm not entirely sure on whether copyright > > statements need to be duplicated from original source files into NOTICE > or > > not. > > Copyright statements on their own within a source file? They do not. > > > For example, Subversion's LICENSE file mentions the 'linenoise' library > and > > its copyrights, but its NOTICE file doesn't. > > That is the propagation of the *entire* BSD-2 *license* for linenoise from > the > source file to the LICENSE file. All members of the BSD license family are > templates which require insertion of a copyright statement. > > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/LICENSE?revision=1714640&view=markup#l369 > > Legally, not even the propagation of the BSD-2 license to LICENSE is > required. > So long as the bundled source files for linenoise retain that license > header, > the BSD-2 license is satisfied and redistribution is legally permitted. > > However, it is the policy of the ASF that the top level LICENSE file > summarize > information about the licensing of bundled dependencies. This provides a > service to downstream consumers of ASF products -- they can examine the > top-level LICENSE file instead of having to look through every last source > file. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
