(cloudberry) 11/29: Add the Greenplum attribution to NOTICE

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commit 4fd4e8578b10d4fe980e7131df668399d99a2ccc
Author: Dianjin Wang <wa...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Sep 15 12:22:43 2026 +0800

    Add the Greenplum attribution to NOTICE
    
    Cloudberry derives a large part of its code from Greenplum Database, which
    LICENSE has said since the beginning:
    
        This product contains significant parts that were originally based on
        software from VMware, Inc. or its affiliates.
    
        Greenplum Database
    
        Copyright (c) 2004-2020 VMware, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights
        Reserved.
    
    NOTICE has never mentioned it.  Greenplum is Apache-2.0 licensed and ships
    a NOTICE file whose first lines are exactly that attribution, so section
    4(d) of the license asks us to carry it forward.
    
    The three satellite repositories already do.  cloudberry-backup,
    cloudberry-go-libs and cloudberry-pxf each name VMware in their NOTICE,
    which leaves the repository with the deepest Greenplum lineage as the only
    one that does not.  This commit uses their wording and layout so the four
    read the same way.
    
    Only the attribution is taken.  greenplum-db/gpdb-archive's NOTICE runs to
    363 lines because it also carries the full license texts of PostgreSQL,
    Python, pexpect, libsocket and curl; that material is not an attribution
    notice, infra.apache.org/licensing-howto.html asks that NOTICE not collect
    it, and Cloudberry already covers those components in LICENSE and
    licenses/ where they belong.
    
    NOTICE also gains the trailing newline it was missing.
    
    Assisted-by: Claude Code
    Backpatch-through: REL_2_STABLE
---
 NOTICE | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
index 13e79d82ce5..0226ded13da 100644
--- a/NOTICE
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -2,4 +2,11 @@ Apache Cloudberry (Incubating)
 Copyright 2024-2026 The Apache Software Foundation
 
 This product includes software developed at
-The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
\ No newline at end of file
+The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This product includes software originally developed by VMware.
+
+Greenplum Database
+Copyright (c) 2004-2020 VMware, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.


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