On 31 October 2012 21:12, Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]> wrote: > Whisker[1] generates LICENSE and NOTICE documents from meta-data. An > optional source URL can be associated with each resource contained in a > distribution. Originally, this supported licenses which require the source > to be printed in the NOTICE but Apache CloudStack[2] would like to include a > source URL in the LICENSE. This would be unconventional but I'm not sure it > would be harmful. > > So, I'm leaning towards introducing a configuration allow this > > Opinions? Objections?
The content of URLs can change, so provided the current content is included in the LICENSE file I don't see any harm in also including the URL from which it was derived. However, I don't think the LICENSE file should contain only the URL. Apart from the fact that the content might vary, the end-user should not have to go fetch another file - the LICENSE file should be complete. > Robert > > [1] http://creadur.apache.org/whisker > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHISKER-3
