[jira] [Created] (LEGAL-518) Clarify handling of third-party copyright headers

["Ryan Blue (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ryan Blue created LEGAL-518:
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             Summary: Clarify handling of third-party copyright headers
                 Key: LEGAL-518
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-518
             Project: Legal Discuss
          Issue Type: Question
            Reporter: Ryan Blue


I submitted a PR to Parquet that included some files from an ALv2 project owned by Cloudera and some files owned by Netflix. To include the code, we followed the [headers policy|[http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers]], which states:
{quote}If the source file is submitted with a copyright notice included in it, the copyright owner (or owner's agent) must either:
 # remove such notices, or
 # move them to the NOTICE file associated with each applicable project release, or
 # provide written permission for the ASF to make such removal or relocation of the notices.{quote}
We worked with someone from Cloudera, who authored the relocation of the file's copyright header to the NOTICE file and is a co-author of [the commit|[https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/commit/ddbeb4dd17d9c219b99b1e66d8be28efe37e3aa6]]. I did the same for Netflix.

At the time, we copied the existing header entirely into NOTICE, including its license notice, "Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); . . ."

An IPMC member is now asking Apache Iceberg (which copied both the file and the notice) to edit the original header and include only the Cloudera-specific portion.

Should a project modify a license header that was moved to the NOTICE by the owner or owner's agent? What is the best practice in this situation?



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