On Aug 12, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Nirmal Fernando <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh... ok... What does that element consists of?
Just this:
<licenses>
<license>
<name>Apache 2</name>
<url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
<distribution>repo</distribution>
</license>
</licenses>
This is optional, but good practice to have. Some jar mining sites will pull
this in searches once a release is published.
Suresh
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nirmal,
>
> What I meant was the <license> tag in Maven POM file.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Nirmal Fernando <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have added Apache Parent POM to the root pom.xml [1].
>
> With that I added license, scm details etc. to root pom.xml.
>
> But we still have <license> defined in some child pom.xml files. For example
> check:
> grep -A 3 -R '<license>' . --include=pom.xml
>
> I think we should remove those and keep license only in root pom. Or should
> we add it to every POM?
>
> AFAIK we should add licensing header to each and every file in the code base.
>
>
> <scm> tag is also there in some pom.xml and those are invalid. See:
> grep -A 4 -R '<scm>' . --include=pom.xml
>
> Likewise there are many things need to be cleaned up.
>
> Some more things to check:
> grep -A 4 -R '<issueManagement>' . --include=pom.xml
> grep -A 7 -R '<mailingLists>' . --include=pom.xml
> grep -A 3 -R '<organization>' . --include=pom.xml
> grep -A 3 -R '<repositories>' . --include=pom.xml
>
> I think we should keep general things only in root pom.
>
> Please share your suggestions.
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STRATOS-44
>
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> Nirmal
>
> C.S.Nirmal J. Fernando
> Senior Software Engineer,
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>
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> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
>
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> Nirmal
>
> C.S.Nirmal J. Fernando
> Senior Software Engineer,
> WSO2 Inc.
>
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