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From: Justin Mclean <justin@classsoftware.com>
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To: general@incubator.apache.org
archived-at: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:03:17 -0000

Hi,

> I think these lines for "The Apache License 2.0" for the non-ASF are
> misleading (everything else is also Apache License) and is not
> required by the Apache license.

While it=E2=80=99s not in line with current policy, it's not a licensing =
error to list them. Several projects do list them.

It may actually useful in some cases as products (i.e. bootstrap and =
select2) have changed licenses over time. It's also useful for binary =
files like OpenSans where the license may not be obvious by inspection.

> and if they already have a NOTICE

None of them (expect Spring Security) have NOTICE files that I can see. =
The Spring Security NOTICE may not have anything that needs to be =
propagated. [1]

>  I would be brave and add their copyright to their files

This has come up before on the list (and legal discuss) and the decision =
was not to add the license/copyright headers. but there=E2=80=99s =
probably several ways of dealing with this issue.

Thanks,
Justin

1. =
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/blob/master/notice.txt=

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