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Subject: Re: Is it ok to put ASF header onto ALv2 compatibly licensed code?
From: Justin Mclean <justin@classsoftware.com>
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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:13:33 +1000
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archived-at: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 01:13:51 -0000

Hi,

> All of that is fine, but it doesn't address my original, much narrower
> question. So let me re-state:
> I have a file that is licensed under MIT but has no header file to say =
so.

In that case to comply with the legal terms of the MIT licence you must =
include the full text of the MIT license and the copyright owner: [1]
"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included =
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

It would also need to be made clear that that file was MIT licensed not =
APv2 licensed. The issue here is that if a file doesn=E2=80=99t include =
a header it could be assumed that it=E2=80=99s the file itself is ALv2 =
licensed (rather than the package as a whole).

INAL but I would either:
a) Add a MIT header to that file [1] (MIT compliance) and add a pointer =
in LICENSE [2] (ASF policy)
b) Put the copyright owner/ full text somewhere [1] (MIT compliance) and =
add the file name and a pointer to that in LICENSE [2] (ASF policy)
c) as b but add a note to the MIT license file saying it=E2=80=99s MIT =
licensed and perhaps a pointer to the full text of the MIT license.

But as I said INAL and others may have differing opinions.

Thanks,
Justin

1. https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
2. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps=

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