On Jul 17, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
Well, I think adding the files to every module is potentially a
problem. I think the release should have a central place all
modules derive their LICENSE file from. The NOTICIES file is a
different animal.
Matt,
What "modules" are you referring to? All of our generated jar files
(.e.g geronimo-kernel-1.1.jar) should contain LICENSE and NOTICE
files. Hrrm, I just looked at two 1.1 jars and they only contain
LICENSE files.
We also need a LICENSE and NOTICE file at the base of our
distributions. These should contain all necessary license and notice
information for all of the Geronimo code built and included in our
distribution. The license and notice file also need to contain
license and notice information for all jar files, or other artifacts,
that we include in our distribution (e.g. asm jar, castor jar, etc...).
Or, are you instead referring to "modules" as in CAR's? If so, then
they are a different animal. However, I don't think we're released
from any licensing requirements.
Given the guidelines in http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what-
must-every-release-contain (see the "Can I distribute a raw
artifact?" section at the bottom), I think that any downloadable
artifact (distribution, car, jar, war, ear, etc) that we "release" to
ibiblio should have appropriate license and notice files
(alternatively, we stop releasing the artifact).
--kevan
Jason Dillon wrote:
If we want to keep these guys in the jars, then we should move
them to their standard src/main/resources/META-INF/* locations so
that they get picked up automatically.
--jason
On Jul 16, 2006, at 5:27 PM, John Sisson wrote:
Jason Dillon wrote:
Um... when were these ever included in the module's jars before?
--jason
On Jul 16, 2006, at 5:04 PM, John Sisson wrote:
Jason Dillon wrote:
Does each module really need LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt?
Or can we just have this at the top-level of the project?
I'd rather have less duplicate files to maintain...
Any comments?
--jason
I think they are needed as each downloadable jar (which each
module has) should contain the license and notice files. Same
with source archives, which AFAIK maven can produce for each
individual module for use by IDE debuggers etc.
John
I just checked and if you look at geronimo-activation-1.1.jar it
should contain META-INF\LICENSE.TXT . It is a problem that the
NOTICE.txt file isn't also included.
We should add a JIRA for the 1.1.1 release for that.
John
