Re: Reviewing license / notice and bundled software

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

On 17 July 2014 15:20, Romain Manni-Bucau <rm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess it is about mvn dependency:tree analysis.

No, that just shows the run-time dependencies.

What's important is what is actually included (bundled) in the release
archives (source and binary).

The NOTICE and LICENSE files must ONLY relate to the bits that are
actually bundled in the archives.

The licensing of non-included dependencies is still relevant however -
an ASF project cannot bundle (e.g.) a GPL2.0 library, but it may
depend on such a library provided that the library is optional.

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> 2014-07-17 16:17 GMT+02:00 Craig L Russell <cr...@oracle.com>:
>> Are you using RAT to evaluate releases for licenses? Or are you doing pre-release activities?
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>> RAT will look at every file in a release and try to identify the license. Are you looking for something that RAT can't do?
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>> Craig
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>> On Jul 17, 2014, at 2:59 AM, Justin Mclean wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> I had to indeed review lots of the dependencies by hand to evaluate
>>>> license issues. It is not simple.
>>> it certainly can be complex but just wondering if we can make the more reasonable cases easier to review / easier for incubator projects.
>>>
>>> Justin
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