Re: [DISCUSS] NOTICE

2017-08-28 Thread Nico Kruber
I actually ran into the same thing again, when I needed to copy a file from Netty's tests (an abstract test base class) and was not quite sure what 4d) under the ASL 2.0 meant: 4. Redistribution. You may reproduce and distribute copies of the Work or Derivative Works thereof in any medium, wit

Re: [DISCUSS] NOTICE

2017-07-12 Thread Stephan Ewen
Hi! I general, adopting code from other Apache projects is okay and needs no special notice (per the Apache License 2.0). It is good style to add comments above the copied code, definitely. As far as I understand it, you add an entry to the NOTICE file when you find other NOTICE files, or when th

[DISCUSS] NOTICE

2017-05-31 Thread Greg Hogan
In several locations we have copied code from external projects, for example flink-scala-shell/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/JarHelper.java links to the file from org.apache.xmlbeans/xmlbeans/2.4.0. We also have copied from Apache's Calcite, Spark, and Hadoop. None of these projects are