Jorg Heymans skrev:
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
I guess this question is common for all Apache projects using a Maven
repository, so it should be asked at the Maven list and possibly at
Legal, any taker?
i raised this on IRC a few months ago, and created a jira issue for it.
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAR-10
Wow, you are active everywhere!
The POM has a licence tag
http://maven.apache.org/maven-model/maven.html#class_license, if all
dependencies has this correctly defined (which they haven't) the
assembly plugin could at least in principle download all the licences
and make part of the distribution.
A first step could be to define it for our own parent POM.
Until something better is supported by maven, that would be a good first
step yes.
I added
<licenses>
<license>
<name>Apache License, Version 2.0</name>
<url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
<distribution>repo</distribution>
</license>
</licenses>
To the root POM, so that gives by inheritance all our artifacts a
machine readable license referens. If there is any support for it is of
course a different question.
Alternatively just put all the licenses into a maven project
and have our core depend on it.
That is probably the most realistic alternative for now. But it will be
a pain to keep track of the licenses for the transitive dependecies. And
if we have several distribution sizes we need different license packs
for them, so plugin support would be nice.
/Daniel
