Github user afs commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/122#issuecomment-171906518
From memory, there were problems making an assembly and the jar in the same
module. Some sort of name clash but maybe it wasn't this module and maybe that
is why the assembly is "-distribution".
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