I don't know what is in your jars under discussion.
My understanding of the policies about LICENSE and NOTICE files is
that they apply to what is actually in the artifact (jar in this case)
being distributed. The DEPENDENCIES file you mention includes
information about stuff that is not included in the artifact but is
likely to be needed to actually use it: this is provided purely as a
convenience for users that want to get a head start on tracking the
licenses of these dependencies.
So, unless you are actually including in the jar some code under a
different license or that has been contributed to apache with
additional NOTICE requirements then the standard LICENSE and NOTICE
files from the maven remote resources plugin with the latest apache
bundle should be fine.
That's my understanding anyway.... there always seems to be a lot of
arguments from ant lovers and C coders whenever this is discussed.
david jencks
On Sep 25, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Felix Knecht wrote:
Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot schrieb:
I think we're done with this refactoring. Everything has been
replaced
and still works. :)
:-)
While we were doing this, I noticed that the LICENCE.TXT and
NOTICE.TXT files that are located in the META-INF folder are not
used,
nor included in the final jar.
However, hopefully we don't ship our jars without having these files
included. I believe they are added (with an extra DEPENDENCIES file)
by Maven during the build. I remember a discussion about that some
time ago on the mailing list.
Now, the question is: If the produced files are legally OK, I think
we
should remove the ones in META-INF.
I'm not a laywer so I can't say OK....
The LICENSE and NOTICE file added are the once from Apache - at least
they look alike.
ATM we to have other licenses also mentioned in the
META-INF/LICENSE.TXT. The DEPENDENCIES file seems to collect them but
they seem to be taken from the transitive dependency poms. If the
configuration of these poms is not complete we don't get them in, e.g.
nlog4j, xpp3:
e.g. studio-dsml-parser DEPENDENCIES:
// Transitive dependencies of this project determined from the
// maven pom organized by organization.
// ------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Directory Studio DSML Parser
From: 'an unknown organization'
- AntLR Parser Generator (http://www.antlr.org/) antlr:antlr:jar:
2.7.7
License: BSD License (http://www.antlr.org/license.html)
- nlog4j org.slf4j:nlog4j:jar:1.2.25
- Unnamed - xpp3:xpp3:jar:1.1.3.4.O
(http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/xsoap/xpp/mxp1/)
xpp3:xpp3:jar:1.1.3.4.O
From: 'Apache Software Foundation' (http://www.apache.org/)
- XML Commons External Components XML APIs
(http://xml.apache.org/commons/#external) xml-apis:xml-apis:jar:1.0.b2
License: The Apache Software License, Version 2.0
(http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt)
From: 'JUnit' (http://www.junit.org)
- JUnit (http://junit.org) junit:junit:jar:3.8.2
License: Common Public License Version 1.0
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.txt)
From: 'MetaStuff Ltd.' (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dom4j)
- dom4j (http://dom4j.org) dom4j:dom4j:jar:1.6.1
From: 'QOS.ch' (http://www.qos.ch)
- SLF4J API Module (http://www.slf4j.org) org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:
1.5.2
From: 'The Apache Software Foundation' (http://jakarta.apache.org)
- Collections (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/)
commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:3.2
License: The Apache Software License, Version 2.0 (/LICENSE.txt)
- Lang (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/)
commons-lang:commons-lang:jar:2.3
License: The Apache Software License, Version 2.0 (/LICENSE.txt)
From: 'The Apache Software Foundation' (http://www.apache.org/)
- Apache Directory ASN.1 Shared
(http://www.apache.org/project/shared-parent/shared-asn1)
org.apache.directory.shared:shared-asn1:jar:0.9.13-SNAPSHOT
License: The Apache Software License, Version 2.0
(http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt)
- Apache Directory Protocol Ldap Shared
(http://www.apache.org/project/shared-parent/shared-ldap)
org.apache.directory.shared:shared-ldap:jar:0.9.13-SNAPSHOT
License: The Apache Software License, Version 2.0
(http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt)
- Apache Directory Protocol Ldap Shared Constants
(http://www.apache.org/project/shared-parent/shared-ldap-constants)
org.apache.directory.shared:shared-ldap-constants:jar:0.9.13-SNAPSHOT
License: The Apache Software License, Version 2.0
(http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt)
WDOT ?
Thanks,
Pierre-Arnaud
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Felix Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Just some more questions...
What about all the *features MF files? Is it the same as for
*help MFs?
Yep.
What about the dsml-parser MF?
I was thinking about letting maven do this for us, as this is a
simple jar. Same thing for the apacheds-launcher project.
Regards,
Pierre-Arnaud
