On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Jackson JSON processing lib which is Apache 2.0 licensed carries this > NOTICE file:
---->8 snip 8<---- > Does anyone have any advice on what portion of this is relevant for > inclusion in a binary NOTICE file? Should it all be included perhaps? Ultimately, this is up to the judgment of the supplier of the convenience binary, and IANAL. That said... It seems to me that a good, simple rule can be applied to any ALv2-licensed dependency which originates from outside the ASF and provides a NOTICE file -- regardless of length: Propagate the entire content of the dependency NOTICE file into the top-level NOTICE file. I think this more conservative approach is justified because it is hard to know whether the dependency's copyright holders would agree with downstream analysis as to which parts of the NOTICE may be omitted and which may not. > Perhaps more generally, given > > http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#alv2-dep > > where it says, > > "If the dependency supplies a NOTICE file, its contents must be analyzed > and the relevant portions bubbled up into the top-level NOTICE file." > > is there any more detailed information on how "relevant portions" get > determined? Well, the definitive resources for determining licensing obligations are the literal license texts. That's more detail than you're asking for, of course. For binaries, we don't provide significant guidance at this time. It's challenging to get our official source releases compliant with our own policies consistently, let alone convenience binaries. There's a lot of work to be done. Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
