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[jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-357) Does binary distribution that bundles jars from other apache projects need to also bundle the full notice from those dependencies?

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-357?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16319266#comment-16319266 ] 

Stian Soiland-Reyes commented on LEGAL-357:
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This is also addressed in http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#binary

Note that this means your binary NOTICE will differ from your source
NOTICE/LICENSE.


Yes, that is a legal requirement from the Apache License. 

This is also true for transitive dependencies which you include in the
binary distro.

(Tip: if the upstream binary do not provide a NOTICE or
META-INF/NOTICE, you probably have nothing to propagate)



Yes, that is a legal requirement from the Apache License.

However see 
http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#bundle-asf-product
for some simplifications that can be done here.


-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718


> Does binary distribution that bundles jars from other apache projects need to also bundle the full notice from those dependencies?
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-357
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-357
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Ivan Kelly
>
> Our project, apache bookkeeper, bundles a bunch of jars in a binary distribution. The majority of them are ASL licensed, and mostly ASF projects.
> From clause 4 (b) of ASF:
> {code}
>       (d) If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its
>           distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must
>           include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained
>           within such NOTICE file, excluding those notices that do not
>           pertain to any part of the Derivative Works, in at least one
>           of the following places: within a NOTICE text file distributed
>           as part of the Derivative Works; within the Source form or
>           documentation, if provided along with the Derivative Works; or,
>           within a display generated by the Derivative Works, if and
>           wherever such third-party notices normally appear. The contents
>           of the NOTICE file are for informational purposes only and
>           do not modify the License. You may add Your own attribution
>           notices within Derivative Works that You distribute, alongside
>           or as an addendum to the NOTICE text from the Work, provided
>           that such additional attribution notices cannot be construed
>           as modifying the License.
> {code}
> For non-ASF projects, do I need to bundle the notice files for these dependencies?
> For ASF projects do I need to bundle the notice for each dependency?



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