I've just read http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html
[1] LICENSE
To apply the ALv2 to a new software distribution, include one copy
of the license text by copying the file:http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt
into a file called LICENSE in the top directory of your
distribution. If the distribution is a jar or tar file, try to
add the LICENSE file first in order to place it at the top of
the archive.We currently use the filename LICENSE.txt, to follow the steps suggested in the guide we should drop the txt extension.
[2] NOTICE
In addition, a NOTICE file should be included in the same
directory as the LICENSE file. The NOTICE should include only
those attribution notices that are required by any part of the
entire distribution. For Apache projects and those redistributing
ASF software, the NOTICE file must contain the sentence: This product includes software developed by
The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).All projects using ALv2 should also include a NOTICE file.
Both LICENSE and NOTICE files MUST be included in the distributions.
[3] Documentation and Source
The license is applied to each source file (code and documentation, but excluding the LICENSE and NOTICE files) by including a short copyright notice at the top, as demonstrated by the boilerplate notice provided in the appendix.
I haven't licensed documentation previously so this was a wake up call for me. This should probably be raised with the maven xdoc people as the generated HTML will not include the license (you could argue that the .class files don't include the license comment either).
[4] Jakarta-Commons LICENSE
The jakarta-commons dir contains two files with very similar contents, LICENSE and LICENSE.txt. Following the guidelines above LICENSE should remain.
Comments?
-John K
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