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What is the copyright notice of this project?
I'm supposed to provide a copyright notice of projects I use as dependencies. I went through many files here, but I struggle to see how the notice looks like for this project. Even the author field is empty in the package.json. Please advise, thanks.
@honzajavorek we have many authors to this project and reference them in the https://github.com/RuntimeTools/appmetrics/blob/master/AUTHORS.md file. As for the copyright itself, we release under the Apache 2.0 licence with our notices being kept here https://github.com/RuntimeTools/appmetrics/blob/master/NOTICES.txt
Hmm. The copyright notice usually looks like this:
Copyright (c) year name <email>
I'm not sure how this works exactly with Apache 2.0, but this is the first project of many where it's hard to assemble the notice. The email is often omitted, but usually the name is the original author(s) who started the project. Sometimes there's an organization (IBM?). Many, many times I've seen something like this:
Copyright (c) 2017 Pedro Teixeira and other contributors
This is the case for nock, for example. In the extreme case, I guess the name could be a concatenation of all names I find from AUTHORS and NOTICES. Is that what you're trying to say I should do?
E.g. appmetrics-prometheus have a LICENSE file like this:
Copyright (c) IBM Corp. 2015,2017. All Rights Reserved.
Node module: appmetrics-prometheus
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Copyright 2015,2017 IBM Corp.
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.
Thus in case of that particular project, the copyright holder is IBM Corp.
@tobespc Thanks! And I'm sorry for the hassle. (Well, I'm sorry for my legal team... 🙂 )