On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 07:52 +0100, Matthias Wessendorf wrote: > > As it happens, there is quite a vigorous discussion going on right now > > in both apache commons and legal-discuss lists regarding NOTICE and > > LICENSE files. Some people would like to use a maven feature to > > auto-generate LICENSE and NOTICE files. This is quite controversial, > > though, and a number of people prefer the existing apache-commons way > > (including myself). > > I like having them in the root folder, like done in Trinidad > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/myfaces/trinidad/trunk_1.2.x/ > > but, the auto-generation plugins is fine for including them in > every JAR. Trinidad uses that plugin as well.
?? Do you mean there is a license and notice checked in, but the built jar ignores these and uses something different instead? That sounds like the worst of both worlds to me. It would: (a) double the work, as *both* need to be checked for correctness, and (b) is really confusing for users if they differ. Regards, Simon
