Re: Including "modified code" dependencies in LICENSE or NOTICE

[Ivan Kelly <iv...@apache.org>]

Bumping this, as it may have been missed due to the holidays.

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Ivan Kelly <iv...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our project is updating our LICENSE/NOTICE files for our distributed
> binaries, and we've run into a question about how we should do it for
> netty.
>
> https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/NOTICE.txt
>
> Netty contains a bunch of dependencies where the code was copied into
> the source tree, with lines like "his product contains a modified
> portion of X". My understanding is that, if these dependencies are
> BSD/MIT licensed, then these need to be noted in LICENSE. If they are
> ASLv2, they need to be noted in the NOTICE. But in either case, they
> need to be noted in one of these two files.
>
> Is this understanding correct?
>
> The full discussion is on
> https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/pull/888, if you're interested in
> digging through it.
>
> -Ivan

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Re: Including "modified code" dependencies in LICENSE or NOTICE

[Sean Owen <sr...@gmail.com>]

Your understanding matches mine. The code you are redistributing is
governed by some license, which Netty should tell you about, and the terms
of those licenses govern how you redistribute them like any other
dependency. It's not a special case.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:15 AM Ivan Kelly <iv...@apache.org> wrote:

> Bumping this, as it may have been missed due to the holidays.
>
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Ivan Kelly <iv...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Our project is updating our LICENSE/NOTICE files for our distributed
> > binaries, and we've run into a question about how we should do it for
> > netty.
> >
> > https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/NOTICE.txt
> >
> > Netty contains a bunch of dependencies where the code was copied into
> > the source tree, with lines like "his product contains a modified
> > portion of X". My understanding is that, if these dependencies are
> > BSD/MIT licensed, then these need to be noted in LICENSE. If they are
> > ASLv2, they need to be noted in the NOTICE. But in either case, they
> > need to be noted in one of these two files.
> >
> > Is this understanding correct?
> >
> > The full discussion is on
> > https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/pull/888, if you're interested in
> > digging through it.
> >
> > -Ivan
>
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