On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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>
>
>
Thanks Suresh!

> This is optional, but good practice to have. Some jar mining sites will
> pull this in searches once a release is published.
>

Yes, +1 for having it.

>
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Isuru Perera
> > Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/
> > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
> >
> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrishantha | LinkedIn:
> http://lk.linkedin.com/in/chrishantha/
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > Nirmal
> >
> > C.S.Nirmal J. Fernando
> > Senior Software Engineer,
> > WSO2 Inc.
> >
> > Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Isuru Perera
> > Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/
> > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
> >
> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrishantha | LinkedIn:
> http://lk.linkedin.com/in/chrishantha/
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > Nirmal
> >
> > C.S.Nirmal J. Fernando
> > Senior Software Engineer,
> > WSO2 Inc.
> >
> > Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
>
>


-- 
Best Regards,
Nirmal

C.S.Nirmal J. Fernando
Senior Software Engineer,
WSO2 Inc.

Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/

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