Hi,

> I think these lines for "The Apache License 2.0" for the non-ASF are
> misleading (everything else is also Apache License) and is not
> required by the Apache license.

While it’s not in line with current policy, it's not a licensing error to list 
them. Several projects do list them.

It may actually useful in some cases as products (i.e. bootstrap and select2) 
have changed licenses over time. It's also useful for binary files like 
OpenSans where the license may not be obvious by inspection.

> and if they already have a NOTICE

None of them (expect Spring Security) have NOTICE files that I can see. The 
Spring Security NOTICE may not have anything that needs to be propagated. [1]

>  I would be brave and add their copyright to their files

This has come up before on the list (and legal discuss) and the decision was 
not to add the license/copyright headers. but there’s probably several ways of 
dealing with this issue.

Thanks,
Justin

1. https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/blob/master/notice.txt
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