Hi, This is required by the ASF. The same goes for the NOTICE.txt file, which is a requirement for every release. ElasticSearch is not ASF software, so it does not apply there.
Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexandre Rafalovitch [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 1:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Why does Solr bundle all the licences > > Hello, > > I am curious what the legal reason for bundling all the .sha and license files > (plus the NOTICE.txt plus the LICENSE.txt)? I am looking at ElasticSearch by > comparison and they have only one. > > Even when they download something like Tika as a plugin, they do not seem > download the license files. > > Are they out of compliance or is Solr going beyond and above requirement > for some reason. > > And, if we do have to have it, would it still be compliant to ship it as a > licences.zip directory (say under docs), as vast majority of the people will > never need to actually extract individual files and it saves the on-disk > representation. > > Regards, > Alex. > P.s. I need a common tag for my latest bunch of emails. #onboarding? > > Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ Current project: > http://www.solr-start.com/ - Accelerating your Solr proficiency > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional > commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
