Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > Reinhard Poetz wrote: > >David Crossley wrote: > >>I saw that some committers have been using lowercase filenames > >>e.g. "notice.txt", so the "release-builder" needs to handle that. > > > >Is there some requirement that the file names of notice.txt and > >license.txt have to be either lower or upper case? Or is it up to us?
The uppercase might just be tradition, but also what people expect to see. > See http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html#license-file-name > > so we should name them "NOTICE" and "LICENSE". > > We should use the same name throughout all modules. Ah thanks. Also from that page: "Can the LICENSE and NOTICE files be called LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt? This is permitted. However the preference is that the files be called LICENSE and NOTICE. " The .txt filename extension helps with svn clients. I am going to add explicit handling to the ASF committers configuration so we can use "NOTICE" and "LICENSE". http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html#https-svn-config Would all committers please update their configuration. -David
