On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The basic cause for that happening was the use of the 'href' attribute to link to remote descriptors accessed via webcvs.
The basic cause was that somebody modified a descriptor without checking whether anything got broken by the change. ;-)
hehehe. True. I probably meant "root cause" or something like that...it is too difficult to check.
Also, the check cannot be automated, its something a human has to do (bad).
On the other hand, href has some potential that we shouldn't throw away. The ant-contrib project has two descriptors that are more or less maintained by me, no big deal, but take a look at the dom testsuite descriptors. Curt Arnold has written them.
In particular, look at the very top of the descriptor for the copyright message and the license - this could never live in a Apache metadata module for legal reasons. Well, maybe it could since the license is less restrictive than the ASL, but you get the point. No webapp would enable anybody to put a different license on the descriptor, for whatever reason he/she should choose to do so.
do you really think that will actually become an issue?
I can't really imagine why someone would want to put an AL-incompatible license on a descriptor that is used by an ASF project to build said project on ASF hardware.
Do you think Curt Arnold would object to moving the descriptor, for example?
-- cheers,
- Leo Simons
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