Re: Feedback on updated NOTICE and LICENSE files (was: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.0-incubating)

Thanks Kevan.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Kevan Miller <kevan.miller@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 6, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote:
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>> Here's another one, say Apache TLP A includes works from Apache TLP B,
>> is this (B) a "third-party" work or not? Are the "parties" in this
>> case singular "the ASF" or the TLPs? Specifically, do I need to
>> include the NOTICE file from B in the NOTICE file for A?
>
> The parties are the ASF, not the TLPs. However, that doesn't mean you can completely ignore TLP B's NOTICE file.
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> TLP B's NOTICE file should contain the notice information for TLP B followed by the required information for B's third-party works.
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> TLP A's NOTICE does not need to (or should not) include the notice information for TLP B (we're all part of the ASF), but TLP A's NOTICE does need to include the third-party information from TLP B's NOTICE file.
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> Concretely, assume this is TLP B's NOTICE:
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>   Apache B
>   Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation
>
>   This product includes software developed by
>   The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
>
>   Portions of this software were developed by the Foo project at http://foo.org
>
> The portion of this NOTICE relevant to TLP A is the information about the Foo project. TLP A's NOTICE file need not mention TLP B, but does need to mention Foo (assuming your embedding of B includes Foo). If it's obvious that the Foo does not apply to your use of B (i.e. Foo is used for a C client that is not used by TLP A), then you need not mention Foo.
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> Assuming Foo is relevant, A's NOTICE would be:
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>   Apache A
>   Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation
>
>   This product includes software developed by
>   The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
>
>   Portions of this software were developed by the Foo project at http://foo.org
>
> --kevan
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