[jira] [Commented] (INCUBATOR-125) How-to guide for "Assembling LICENSE and NOTICE"

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sebb commented on INCUBATOR-125:
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Very useful.

compiled package => binary package
would be clearer.

I don't think it's advisable to incorporate the list of license types; just link to where the official list is found.
                
> How-to guide for "Assembling LICENSE and NOTICE"
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: INCUBATOR-125
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-125
>             Project: Incubator
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: site
>            Reporter: Marvin Humphrey
>         Attachments: licensing_howto.mdtext
>
>
> While the ASF provides reference documentation for LICENSE and NOTICE,
> confusion persists and existing versions vary widely in quality.
> To address these problems, we should augment the reference documentation with
> a "how-to" guide which provides formulaic instructions for assembling LICENSE
> and NOTICE under common conditions.
> One key feature of this how-to should be a mapping of approved licenses to
> what they require as far as NOTICE.  This mapping will help PMCs determine
> when the licensing information of a dependency contains a "required third
> party notice" which must be added to NOTICE.
> There are at least four possible locations where this how-to might live:
> *   www.apache.org/dev/licensing_howto.html -- probably the best location,
>     considering the intended audience.
> *   www.apache.org/legal/licensing_howto.html -- if legal wants it.
> *   incubator.apache.org/guides/licensing_howto.html -- probably not ideal,
>     because the information applies to TLPs as well as podlings and we have a
>     problem with duplication.
> *   Somewhere on community.apache.org -- in theory.

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