[ASTERIXDB-1320] Improvements to LICENSE/NOTICE in binary artifacts

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: *DB - AsterixDB, HYR - Hyracks, LIC - Licensing
• Labels: soon
• Assignee: Michael Blow
• Reporter: Till Westmann
• Created: 23/Feb/16 22:54
• Updated: 25/Jan/17 03:18
• Resolved: 25/Jan/17 03:18

Description

for AsterixDB (0.8.8-incubating) and Hyracks (0.2.17-incubating) (RC1):

• some of those jars contain bundled software which may need to be added to LICENSE and NOTICE
• LICENSE lists a large number of CDDL licensed bits of software. CDDL is Category B we should provide a link to the source code (see 3.1. Availability of Source Code in (1)). Previous advice on legal-discuss was this goes in NOTICE but recent discussions have left this a bit more muddled.
• There's no need to list in NOTICE the copyright years and name of an ASF licensed product or the line " This product includes software developed by”.
• The NOTICE files have a lot of not required information in them (2)

(1) https://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0
(2) http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#mod-notice

Issue Links

• relates to: ASTERIXDB-1323 LICENSE fixes from release-0.8.8
• relates to: ASTERIXDB-1324 NOTICE fixes