[CALCITE-6098] Update LICENSE and NOTICE for Jekyll website template

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.36.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.37.0
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Stamatis Zampetakis
• Reporter: Stamatis Zampetakis
• Created: 08/Nov/23 13:29
• Updated: 06/May/24 22:19
• Resolved: 22/Jan/24 12:36

Description

The NOTICE file contains the following statement:

The web site includes files generated by Jekyll.

 
However, there is nothing in the LICENSE of Jekyll  that requires such attribution. 

According to the instructions of composing the NOTICE file for ASF projects we shouldn't add anything in there that is not legally required.

Moreover the generated files are not necessary licensed under the same LICENSE with the generator.

JavaCC, ANTLR, and lots of other source generators use a variety of licenses but the generated output is not licensed under the same terms. For instance, Calcite uses JavaCC, which is licensed under BSD-3  but both the grammar as well as the generated .java files are AL2.

As long as we are not packaging bits of Jekyll in Calcite there is no need to add explicit mentions in LICENSE or NOTICE files.

Issue Links

• is related to: CALCITE-6099 Missing LICENSE entry for _pygments.scss
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3510