[jira] [Resolved] (SAMZA-1401) update NOTICE for 0.13.1 release with RocksDB BSD+patents license

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-1401?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Navina Ramesh resolved SAMZA-1401.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Issue resolved by pull request 279
[https://github.com/apache/samza/pull/279]

> update NOTICE for 0.13.1 release with RocksDB BSD+patents license
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SAMZA-1401
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-1401
>             Project: Samza
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Fred Ji
>            Assignee: Fred Ji
>             Fix For: 0.13.1
>
>
> Based on the following email, we are updating the NOTICE accordingly:
> From: Chris Mattmann <ma...@apache.org>
> Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 9:56 AM
> Subject: Facebook BSD+patents license and Apache products
> To: legal-discuss@apache.org
> Hi,
> As some of you may know, recently the Facebook BSD+patents license has been
> moved to Category X (https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved#category-x).
> Please see LEGAL-303 [1] for a discussion of this. The license is also referred
> to as the ROCKSDB license, even though Facebook BSD+patents is its more
> industry standard name.
> This has impacted some projects, to date based on LEGAL-303
> and the detective work of Todd Lipcon:
> Samza, Flink, Marmotta, Kafka and Bahir
> (perhaps more)
> Please take notice of the following policy:
> o No new project, sub-project or codebase, which has not
>   used Facebook BSD+patents licensed jars (or similar), are allowed to use
>   them. In other words, if you haven't been using them, you
>   aren't allowed to start. It is Cat-X.
> o If you have been using it, and have done so in a *release*,
>   you have a temporary exclusion from the Cat-X classification thru
>   August 31, 2017. At that point in time, ANY and ALL usage
>   of these Facebook BSD+patents licensed artifacts are DISALLOWED. You must
>   either find a suitably licensed replacement, or do without.
>   There will be NO exceptions.
> o Any situation not covered by the above is an implicit
>   DISALLOWAL of usage.
> Also please note that in the 2nd situation (where a temporary
> exclusion has been granted), you MUST ensure that NOTICE explicitly
> notifies the end-user that a Facebook BSD+patents licensed artifact exists. They
> may not be aware of it up to now, and that MUST be addressed.
> If there are any questions, please ask on the legal-discuss@a.o
> list.
> Thanks.
> Cheers,
> Chris Mattmann
> VP Legal Affairs



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