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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:00:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Sean Owen (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-226) Do we need to include 3rd party
 licenses verbatim in our source distributions
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Sean Owen commented on LEGAL-226:
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Sorry [~sebb@apache.org] I managed to misread option 1 after staring at LICENSE/NOTICE too long. Yes, the question concerns modifying LICENSE, not NOTICE. At least I certainly agree NOTICE should not change, since the thread is in fact about BSD/MIT licensed code.

http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps says a "pointer" goes in LICENSE, though I had read this to mean "in the other project's source tree". Is it definitely the intended meaning that the license must be copied into the project too? 

> Do we need to include 3rd party licenses verbatim in our source distributions
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-226
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-226
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Rick Hillegas
>
> The Spark developer community is discussing what kind of license information should be included in Apache source distributions. The discussion began on http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-Apache-Spark-1-5-1-RC1-td14310.html and was moved to http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Discuss-NOTICE-file-for-transitive-quot-NOTICE-quot-s-td14326.html
> The two opinions seem to be:
> 1) It is sufficient for the NOTICE file to refer to licenses which are posted on 3rd party websites.
> 2) The source distro needs to bundle verbatim copies of 3rd party licenses as is done, for instance, by the THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt in the JDK.
> We would appreciate any guidance you can give us.
> Thanks,
> -Rick


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