[License-discuss] Fwd: Should fork a project on github be seen as distribution of origin project?

Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de
Wed Aug 3 17:48:58 UTC 2022


Alex Rousskov dixit:

> For example, IMO, the "prominent notice" may come in a form of "See the 
> NOTICE file for details about this software modifications." text 

The NOTICE file is the absolutely worst place for this as it’s an
append-only must-not-be-removed requirement of the Apache 2 licence
which I always found questionable in the first place… if it’s only
used for legal notices that must stick with the code already anyway
it may be tolerable, but putting anything else in there is IMHO not
different from CC’s ND clause, or GFDL’s invariant sections.

bye,
//mirabilos
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