LICENSE file requirements
LICENSE requirements for distribution artifacts with multiple licenses
NOTICE file requirements (Check Copyright year) - see also https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html
Apache Legal
Acceptable and Unacceptable Dependency Licenses

C. Open Pull Requests to fix these Issues

...

PR to fix the top level LICENSE file - This one has been merged but a review from mentors/PMC would still be helpful
bayard@: The last paragraph looks suspect. I doubt we've taken code from the BSD project.
PR to update the license_header.py file and add apache licenses where missing - Merged.
P R to add license for dockerfiles - Merged
PR to fix License headers in specific files - Part 1 - Merged
PR for some fixes based on Apache RAT failures - Part 2 - Merged
PR for some fixes based on Apache RAT failures - Part 3 - Merged
PR for some fixes based on Apache RAT failures - Part 4 - Merged
PR for adding headers to the perl-package - Merged
PR for adding headers to the docs folder - Merged
PR for some fixes based on Marco's email - Merged
PR to fix the website - Merged
PR to add copyrights for third party licenses to license file - Merged
PR to add static-dependencies licenses - Merged

D. Open Issues/Questions/Doubts/Concerns (Help Requested!)

Question 1: What all can be excluded from RAT checks? Currently the following are being excluded from the RAT checks. Is this ok ?

Name of File/Folder Excluded from RAT Check	Reason for Ignoring	Concerns
1	These File Types: *.

xml ; *.

css ; *.txt;

*.md ;

\..* ; *.ipynb ; *.html

; *.js

; *.json ; *.svg; *.

config; *.

names; *.csv


2	Submodules - 3rdparty

/* ; dmlc-core/* ; mshadow/* ; dmlc-core

/*

; dlpack/* ; nnvm/* ; ps-lite/*

		None
3	R-package	Not a part of MXNet Release	None
4	Ignore all Dockerfiles - docker/; Dockerfile ; docker_multiarch/*	Dockerfiles cant have license
5

__init__.py files	These files contain no text	None
6	theme.conf	A header might affect website.	Only one script here without a license - docs/_static/mxnet-theme/theme.conf
7	This file - src/operator/nn/pool.h	It was decided that this file should not have an Apache License and it was removed here - P R 9170	None. But can be verified again.
8	This file - src/operator/special_functions-inl.h	It

5

perl-package/*

I am not entirely sure about licensing here. (Also see issue 12 in the last table below)

I have created a PR - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/9554

But there are still some files here which dont have the license (*.i files and some more)

6 contrib/* I am not entirely sure about licensing here. Is ASF header ok?7 __init__.py files These files contain no text None8 docs/_static/* A header might affect website. Only one script here without a license -
docs/_static/mxnet-theme/theme.conf9 This file - src/operator/nn/pool.hIt

was decided that this file should not have an Apache License and it was removed here - P R 9170

None. But can be verified again.

10This file - src/operator/special_functions-inl.hIt was decided that this file should not have an Apache License and it was removed here - P R 9170None. But can be verified again.

9	example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/

11example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/

*

This is licensed under MIT but RAT doesnt pick that. ASF should not be added

Should MIT license text be added explicitly?

12

10

This Dataset - example/gluon/tree_lstm/dataset.cPickle

This is a dataset

None. But can be verified again.

13

11	CODEOWNERS

This file - tools/coreml/pip_package/README.rstThis is a READMENone. But can be verified again.14CODEOWNERStext file

...

text file

Question 2: There are still

...

2 files with unknown licenses as per Apache RAT - SEE TABLE BELOW for this LIst

1. This list assumes

all 7 PRs listed

1. above

are approved and merged This list assumes above

excluded folders and formats are acceptable.

S.No	File Name	Comments
1.	~~CODEOWNERS~~	Moved to excludes
2.	~~appveyor.yml~~	Added ASF header - Open PR
3.	~~readthedocs.yml~~	~~Does this need an Apache License ?~~
4.	snap.python	Can I add Apache License here?
5.	~~snapcraft.yaml~~	~~Can I add Apache License here?~~
6.	python/mxnet/cython/base.pyi	File format --?
7.	~~tests/ci_build/pylintrc~~	Added ASF header - Open PR

Question 3: Issue 23 and Issue

...

37 in table below

This file has had some conflict - example/image-classification/predict-cpp/image-classification-predict.cc

(and one more)

Question 4: Issue 23 and Issue 37 in table below

This Folder needs Folder needs to be reviewed - src/operator/contrib/ctc_include

Question 5: is it ok to include a necessary jar?

There exists one jar in the src code which is not easy to remove. is this ok to include? - tools/caffe_translator/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar

E. E. More Details about the Issues & their Status

No

Category

Problem

Source Files

Suggested by

Leads

Comments

1.

Source

tree

* Move the various git submodules into third-party/ or similar so it's
simpler to see what is Apache original source when we review a release.

submodules

Henri Yandell

Haibin Lin


2.	~~Copyright~~	* Deal with the Copyright statements in perl-package (copyright holder has approved doing this)	~~perl-package~~	~~Henri Yandell~~	~~Henri Yandell~~	~~Fixed by Henri in this PR -~~ ~~https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/9191~~
3.	~~Formatting~~	* Lots of whitespace on end of NOTICE	~~NOTICE~~	Henri Yandell	Meghna Baijal	PR Merged https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/9459
4.	Comments	* Comment added to CODEOWNERS to explain the file so we don't cause community problems	CODEOWNERS	Henri Yandell	Steffen Rochel


5.	LICENSE	* There was a suggestion to simplify the LICENSE to not explicitly list which packages are under each license. Something to consider.	LICENSE	Henri Yandell	Meghna Baijal	If this is done, it would resolve points 8-11 and 13-19 of this wiki PR - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/9484

LICENSE

* Update the Paths to license files once submodules are moved

LICENSE

Meghna Baijal

Haibin Lin


	Automated Check	* Update the license_header.py script instead of manual exclusions	tools/license_header.py	Meghna Baijal	Meghna Baijal	makefiles,

ISSUES IN SPECIFIC FILES

ISSUES IN SPECIFIC FILES

6.

Specific

Files

* Resolve License Header - if you follow the URL mentioned in the file it is unclear

if the code came form that site or was written for the project by the author

of that site.

example/image-classification/predict-cpp/image-classification-predict.cc

Justin McClean

7.

Specific

Files

* Resolve License Header - This file has two license headers

~~tools/license_header.py~~

Justin McClean

Meghna Baijal

Possibly RAT got confused

by the matching string. Does not need a fix.

8.

Specific

Files

* Check LICENSE - Listed as Apache License in the LICENSE but is it MIT license?

~~nnvm/tvm/HalideIR/LICENSE~~

Justin McClean

Meghna Baijal

Submodule, not to be fixed as part of MXNet release

Added to MIT license in LICENSE

9.

Specific

Files

* Check LICENSE - Listed as Apache License in the LICENSE but is it MIT license?

~~example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/gpu_nms.pyx~~

Justin McClean

Meghna Baijal

Removed details from LICENSE. Correctly added MIT license header and in LICENSE file in directory

Files licenses under different licenses, added to all in the top level LICENSE -

/incubator-mxnet/example/rcnn/LICENSE

10.

Specific

Files

* Check LICENSE - Listed as Apache License in the LICENSE but is it MIT license?

~~example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/gpu_nms.pyx~~

Justin McClean

Meghna Baijal

Removed details from LICENSE. Correctly added MIT license header and in LICENSE file in directory

Files licenses under different licenses, added to all in the top level LICENSE -

/incubator-mxnet/example/rcnn/LICENSE

11

Specific

Files

* Check LICENSE - Listed as Apache License in the LICENSE but is it MIT license?

~~example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/cpu_nms.pyx~~

Justin McClean

Meghna Baijal

Removed details from LICENSE. Correctly added MIT license header and in LICENSE file in directory

Files licenses under different licenses, added to all in the top level LICENSE -

/incubator-mxnet/example/rcnn/LICENSE

12.

Specific

Files

* Missing License Header - is it Apache License?

~~perl-package/AI-NNVMCAPI/Makefile.PL~~

Justin McClean

13.

Specific

Files

* Add to LICENSE - BSD license

~~src/operator/contrib/ctc_include/contrib/moderngpu/include/mgpudevice.cuh~~

Justin McClean

Add BSD to license. Packages not named in LICENSE anymore

Wrongly Named in the LICENSE file as Warp-CTC, corrected

14.

Specific

Files

* Add to LICENSE - A dozen files here are BSD

~~src/operator/contrib/ctc_include/contrib/moderngpu/include/device/~~

Justin McClean

Add BSD to license. Packages not named in LICENSE anymore

Wrongly Named in the LICENSE file as Warp-CTC, corrected

15.

Specific

Files

* Add to LICENSE - BSD license

nnvm/tvm/dmlc-core/cmake/Modules/FindCrypto.cmake

Justin McClean

Meghna Baijal

Repeat again for the same file??

16.

Specific

Files

*

~~Add~~

to

~~LICENSE~~

-

~~BSD~~

~~license~~

~~example/ssd/dataset/pycocotools/coco.py~~

Justin McClean

Already there in LICENSE file as MS coco

17.

Specific

Files

*

~~Add~~

to

~~LICENSE~~

-

6

~~files~~

~~are~~

~~BSD~~

~~licensed~~

~~example/rcnn/rcnn/pycocotools~~

Justin McClean

Packages not named in LICENSE anymore

Already there in LICENSE

18.

Specific

Files

* Add to LICENSE - BSD license

~~dmlc-core/cmake/Modules/FindCrypto.cmake~~

Justin McClean

Submodule, no edits

Submodule, no edits

Packages not named in LICENSE anymore

Added to LICENSE as BSD

19.

Specific

Files

* Add to LICENSE - BSD license

~~cub/experimental/spmv_compare.cu~~

Justin McClean

CUB exists as BSD

20.

Specific

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

prepare_mkl.sh

Justin McClean

Does not say BSD, add?

21.

Specific

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

src/operator/nn/im2col.h
src/operator/nn/im2col.cuh

Justin McClean

First

Created PR, in review 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/9462

22.

~~Specific~~

~~Files~~

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

~~src/operator/contrib/nn/deformable_im2col.h~~
src/operator/contrib/nn/deformable_im2col.cuh

Justin McClean

First was fixed for 1.0.0 here - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/9170
Second in PR review - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/9462

23.

Specific Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

src/operator/contrib/ctc_include/contrib/moderngpu/include/mgpuenums.h

Justin McClean

License seems to be correct. No ASF header.

24.

Specific

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it BSD

example/ssd/dataset/pycocotools/coco.py

Justin McClean

Removed ASF header in PR
ADD BSD License text??

25.

Specific

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it MIT

example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/setup.py

Justin McClean

Removed ASF Header in PR
Add MIT license Text?

26.

Specific

Files

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it MIT

example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/nms_kernel.cu

Justin McClean

Removed ASF Header in PR
Add MIT license Text?

27.

~~Specific~~

~~Files~~

* Incorrect License Header - Has ASF header but is it MIT

~~example/rcnn/rcnn/cython/setup.py~~

Justin McClean

 Repeat


	Specific Files	Resolve License: should this file get an apache license? (RAT thinks so but why does the script skip it?)	src/operator/special_functions-inl.h



		APACHE RAT CHECK FAILURES


28.	RAT Failure	* Fix Submodules - RAT detected almost 2000 files with unknown licenses in submodules	Submodules (nnvm, dlpack, 3rdparty, ps-lite, mshadow) and R-package

		Decision needed on how to handle submodule licenses
29.	RAT Failure	* Check Docs - RAT detected almost 200 files with unknown licenses in

the Docs directory

/docs

Excluded for now

30.

RAT Failure

* Fix dockerfiles without license headers

/docker

Meghna Baijal

Added a top level License.md to this folder

31.

RAT Failure

* Fix docker_multiarch - unknown license header

/docker_multiarch

Meghna BaijalAdded a top level License.md to this folder

32.

RAT Failure

* Fix scala-package - unknown license

/scala-package

Added apache license

33.

RAT Failure

* Fix tools

/tools

34.

RAT Failure

* Fix tests

/tests

All fixed except one `tests/ci_build/pylintrc`

35.

RAT Failure

* Fix examples

/examples

37.

RAT Failure

* Fix ctc_include

src/operator/contrib/ctc_include

...

the Docs directory	/docs			Excluded for now
30.	RAT Failure	* Fix dockerfiles without license headers	/docker		Meghna Baijal	Added a top level License.md to this folder
31.	RAT Failure	* Fix docker_multiarch - unknown license header	/docker_multiarch		Meghna Baijal	Added a top level License.md to this folder
37.	RAT Failure	* Fix ctc_include	src/operator/contrib/ctc_include

F. Static Linked Dependencies in Release

This section lists all dependencies used in the releases of pip and maven. Frank Liu pointed out some of them are using BSD3, GPL and customized License which should be placed in the official releases.

Currently, the licenses were covered when we created the static-linked so file which can be found in this PR.

	current stable version	binary release for ubuntu 16.04	mxnet release 1.4	Build dependencies	License	License Name
OpenBLAS	0.2.20	0.2.18	0.3.2		https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/develop/LICENSE	BSD3
OpenCV	4.0.0	2.4.9.1	3.4.2	eigen, libpng, libjpg-turbo, libtiff, zlib	https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/master/LICENSE	BSD3
zlib	1.2.11	1.2.8	1.2.6		https://github.com/LuaDist/zlib/blob/master/README
libjpeg-turbo	2.0.1	1.5.3-62	1.5.90 (2.0 beta 1)	nasm	https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/blob/master/LICENSE.md
libpng	1.6.36	1.2.54	1.6.34	zlib	https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/blob/libpng16/LICENSE
libtiff	v4.0.10	4-0-6	4-0-9		https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/blob/master/COPYRIGHT
libssl-dev	1.1.1a	1.0.2g	1.0.2l		https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/LICENSE	Apache2
libcurl	7.62.0	7.47.0	7.61.0	libtool, automake	https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html
eigen	3.3.5	3.2.92	3.3.4		https://github.com/eigenteam/eigen-git-mirror/blob/master/COPYING.BSD	BSD
protobuf	3.6.1	2.6.1	3.5.1		https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/LICENSE
cityhash	1.1.1		1.1.1		https://github.com/google/cityhash/blob/master/COPYING
zmq	4.2.5	4.1.4	4.2.2		https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/blob/master/COPYING	GPL
lz4	v1.8.3	r131	r130		https://github.com/lz4/lz4/blob/dev/LICENSE

OpenCV depends on following libraries, and can build them on the fly:

OpenBLAS
zlib (ver 1.2.6)
libjpeg-turbo (ver 1.5.90)
libpng (ver 1.6.34)
libtiff (ver 42 - 4.0.9)
eigen (ver 3.3.4)

ps-lite dependencies (USE_DIST_KVSTORE):

zeromq - 4.1.4
protobuf 2.5.0
lz4
cityhash

USE_S3

libcurl
libssl-dev

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D. Open Issues/Questions/Doubts/Concerns (Help Requested!)

Question 1: What all can be excluded from RAT checks? Currently the following are being excluded from the RAT checks. Is this ok ?

Question 2: There are still

2 files with unknown licenses as per Apache RAT - SEE TABLE BELOW for this LIst

Question 3: Issue 23 and Issue

37 in table below

Question 4: Issue 23 and Issue 37 in table below

Question 5: is it ok to include a necessary jar?

E. E. More Details about the Issues & their Status

F. Static Linked Dependencies in Release

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C. Open Pull Requests to fix these Issues

D. Open Issues/Questions/Doubts/Concerns (Help Requested!)

Question 1: What all can be excluded from RAT checks? Currently the following are being excluded from the RAT checks. Is this ok ?

Question 2: There are still

2 files with unknown licenses as per Apache RAT - SEE TABLE BELOW for this LIst

Question 3: Issue 23 and Issue

37 in table below

Question 4: Issue 23 and Issue 37 in table below

Question 5: is it ok to include a necessary jar?

E. E. More Details about the Issues & their Status

F. Static Linked Dependencies in Release