On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Luciano Resende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
<snip> > > One question in my mind is that, why we don't have these files for > projects > > in samples, itests and vtests? > > > > I believe there should be some reason for the same, like to understand > the > > process here. Thanks. > > > > > There was a discussion in the past where the community decided that > was not necessary to have license/notices on these files, I believe > because we don't release the jars for any of this. I was trying to > find past discussion on this, but couldn't. > > Thats right. Artifacts only need the legal files if they're being distributed separately, for example as a jar in a maven repository. We don't do that with the itests, vtest, samples, demos or tutorials so they don't need the legal files. Those modules only ever get distributed as part of the binary or source distribution which has its own legal files which covers everything within the distribution. ...ant
