On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Justin Mclean <justinmcl...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I seem to recall reading some place or another that pointers
> > to licenses in the forms of URLs or textual references are frowned upon,
> > because licenses may change over time, or the links may break
>
> Correct. Also most licenses say you much include the full text of the
> license in your distribution.
>
>
OK. In the case that we've incorporated code, we could switch to doing:
"""
src/kudu/gutil/valgrind.h: Hybrid BSD (half BSD, half zlib)
src/kudu/util (some portions): 3-clause BSD license
src/kudu/util (HdrHistogram-related classes): public domain
src/kudu/util/{random-util.cc},{random.h}: some portions adapted from
WebRTC project (modules/video_coding/main/test/test_util.cc) under a
3-clause BSD license.
For full license text of the above licenses, please refer to the license
headers at the top of the respective files.
"""
...and then make sure that those files contain the full text of the
license, instead of copy-pasting the text into LICENSE.txt. Does that sound
like the best path forward?
-Todd
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Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera
