Hi all,

In a recent commit to Apache JAMES Mime4J I introduced a Base64OutputStream released from another ASF PMC (Apache MyFaces). Should we add anything to our NOTICE?

I ask this because I happen to look at wicket main NOTICE file and I see they made a reference to each file they copied around from other ASF products: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/wicket/trunk/NOTICE

I referenced the source in the svn commit and I added a line to the source file header saying "This class has been copied from Apache MyFaces Trinidad 1.2.8"

I thought the main "This product includes software developed at The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)." allowed us to include any source from any ASF project without further references, but I'd like to have confirmation for this.

In this specific case I add that the NOTICE for the ASF MyFaces Trinidad package I downloaded to get the Base64OutputStream.java file include this:

------------- Portions of this software were originally based on the following:

- software copyright (c) 2000-2006, Oracle Corp, <http://www.oracle.com/>. and are licensed to the Apache Software Foundation under the "Software Grant and Corporate Contribution License Agreement"

-------------

I tried to understand if the Base64OutputStream was from this grant/contribution or not, but I can only find this: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/myfaces/trinidad/trunk/trinidad-api/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/trinidad/util/Base64OutputStream.java?revision=404824&view=markup and the original incubated code: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/adffaces/trunk/adf-faces/adf-faces-api/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/adf/util/Base64OutputStream.java?revision=404824&view=markup&pathrev=404824

The first version of the NOTICE file is newer than the import above and already includes the Oracle reference: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/myfaces/trinidad/trunk/NOTICE.txt?revision=466284&view=markup

From my understanding (also scanning markmail for "Oracle" + "Trinidad") Oracle contributed minor parts of the code (mainly message bundle translations and a portlet-bridge code.. but MyFaces team included a generic reference to Oracle in the main NOTICE.

Looking in trinidad-1.2.8-src-all.zip java files I see many of them have a version header with an "oracle" reference in the path:

----- @version $Name: $ ($Revision: adfrt/faces/adf-faces-api/src/test/java/oracle/adf/view/faces/convert/ConverterTestCase.java#0 $) $Date: 17-oct-2005.16:28:54 $

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The Base64OutputStream is not one of them.

Stefano