[SPARK-10833] [BUILD] Inline, organize BSD/MIT licenses in LICENSE #8919
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…rom LICENSE to a licenses/LICENSE-*.txt file
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Test build #43023 has finished for PR 8919 at commit
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…ere before they were just linked to the project site from LICENSE
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Anybody care too much one way or the other about the license stuff? I've done my best to manage that aspect, and this represents my current best judgment about how these licenses should be bundled. It's a non-functional change, so I feel reasonably good going ahead with it. |
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Hey Sean - looks good to me, but can't claim to be nearly as deep as you are on this stuff! |
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In the course of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-226 it came to light that the guidance at http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps means that permissively-licensed dependencies has a different interpretation than we (er, I) had been operating under. "pointer ... to the license within the source tree" specifically means a copy of the license within Spark's distribution, whereas at the moment, Spark's LICENSE has a pointer to the project's license in the other project's source tree. The remedy is simply to inline all such license references (i.e. BSD/MIT licenses) or include their text in "licenses" subdirectory and point to that. Along the way, we can also treat other BSD/MIT licenses, whose text has been inlined into LICENSE, in the same way. The LICENSE file can continue to provide a helpful list of BSD/MIT licensed projects and a pointer to their sites. This would be over and above including license text in the distro, which is the essential thing. Author: Sean Owen <[email protected]> Closes #8919 from srowen/SPARK-10833. (cherry picked from commit bf4199e) Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <[email protected]>
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In the course of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-226 it came to light that the guidance at http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps means that permissively-licensed dependencies has a different interpretation than we (er, I) had been operating under. "pointer ... to the license within the source tree" specifically means a copy of the license within Spark's distribution, whereas at the moment, Spark's LICENSE has a pointer to the project's license in the other project's source tree.
The remedy is simply to inline all such license references (i.e. BSD/MIT licenses) or include their text in "licenses" subdirectory and point to that.
Along the way, we can also treat other BSD/MIT licenses, whose text has been inlined into LICENSE, in the same way.
The LICENSE file can continue to provide a helpful list of BSD/MIT licensed projects and a pointer to their sites. This would be over and above including license text in the distro, which is the essential thing.