[openstack-dev] NOTICE files

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Tue Apr 23 20:39:28 UTC 2013


Hi all,

Let me start with IANAL :)

At the ASF, the root directory of each project has a NOTICE file (same
directory as the LICENSE) file. This file is for collecting copyright,
attribution etc. and per the Apache License 2.0 (Section 4.d) [1]
requires those who create derivative works using our code to carry
those along as well. Please see the following examples.

https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/NOTICE?view=log
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/axis/axis2/java/core/trunk/NOTICE.txt?view=log
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/geronimo/server/trunk/NOTICE?view=log

Do we have a mechanism that serves the same purpose? Should we adopt
this practice?

thanks,
dims

[1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html



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