From http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#notice-required: Yes! The NOTICE file must contain an attribute for the ASF. The standard ASF attribution is given below: This product includes software developed by The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#best-practice indicates that jars should contain NOTICE and LICENSE files in the META-INF directory. Fix for this bug renames LICENSE.txt to LICENSE, adds NOTICE and adds NOTICE and LICENSE to all jars.
Commit rev 440265 on trunk, 440263 on 1.2 branch.