<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 10:50 AM Thorsten Glaser <<a href="mailto:tg@mirbsd.de">tg@mirbsd.de</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The NOTICE file is the absolutely worst place for this as it’s an<br>
append-only must-not-be-removed requirement of the Apache 2 licence<br>
which I always found questionable in the first place… </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree. A file called NOTICES has a special status in the Apache 2.0 license, it appears that any additions to it _have_ to be included in a git pull in order to comply with the license. Remember the invariant sections in the GNU FDL, and how disliked they were as legal instruments meant for the propagation of rants? This isn't particularly different.</div><div><br></div><div>So yeah, put the notice in MODIFICATIONS.md as I suggested, or any file but the license text and NOTICES, in order to give people who follow you the most latitude to comply with the license without making a mess.</div><div><br></div><div> Bruce</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Bruce Perens K6BP</div></div></div></div></div>