licensing legal-terms open-source-software
Copying documentation and images from apache2 license
<p>I am software developer and I wrote framework that is based on the same concepts as framework that is available in different language. </p>

<p>This framework is under Apache2 License and I want to copy big part of documentation that describing the main concepts and also the images.</p>

<p>Is this legal? Will credits at the bottom of the documentation enough?</p>

<p>Yes, it is legal, provided the documentation is made available for adaption and distribution under the same framework.</p>

<p>If it isn't, any entity using the <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Apache 2.0 License</a> for software will be inclined to use a similar license with similar freedoms for downstream recipients for its documentation (i.e. <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.en.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GFDL</a> or <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Creative Commons BY-SA</a>) - but it is worth checking out.</p>

<p>Provided the documentation is made available under the Apache 2.0 License, the section "How to apply the Apache License to your work" <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">at the bottom this page</a> tell you how to comply.</p>

<p>Also read the section "Redistribution" higher up on the page. It tells you what to retain to satisfy the copyright and attribution requirements of the work you are building upon.</p>
