From 80067c704ec1006db1475a28593cd3b3e78be420 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dianjin Wang Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:11:20 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Remove license text from NOTICE Justin Mclean noted during the 2.2.0-rc1 IPMC vote that this NOTICE carries the full Apache-2.0 boilerplate, and that NOTICE is reserved for notifications that are legally required. The text came from upstream: github.com/greenplum-db/gpbackup-archive ships a NOTICE whose body is the VMware attribution followed by the Apache-2.0 grant boilerplate, and the whole file was copied in when the code was donated. Copying all of it is more than section 4(d) of the Apache License asks for. It requires "the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file", not the file itself, and infra.apache.org/licensing-howto.html is explicit that a bundled dependency's NOTICE "must be analyzed and the relevant portions bubbled up", and that one should "keep NOTICE as brief and simple as possible" and "not add anything to NOTICE which is not legally required". So keep the part that is an attribution notice: This product includes software originally developed by VMware. Greenplum Database Backup Copyright 2017-Present VMware, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. and drop the license grant, which is not one. The Apache-2.0 terms continue to reach users through LICENSE and the source file headers, which is where they belong. Assisted-by: Claude Code --- NOTICE | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE index cf7f007c..a5e00dc2 100644 --- a/NOTICE +++ b/NOTICE @@ -9,17 +9,4 @@ The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). This product includes software originally developed by VMware. Greenplum Database Backup - Copyright 2017-Present VMware, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. - -Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); -you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. -You may obtain a copy of the License at - - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 - -Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software -distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, -WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. -See the License for the specific language governing permissions and -limitations under the License.