At 18:56 01.01.2002 -0800, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:

>On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Ted Husted wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:54:30 -0500
>> From: Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: Jakarta General List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: Jakarta General List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: Just the JARs
>>
>> "Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote:
>> > Putting aside *all* the stuff we are talking about for a moement, and
>> > looking at the simple notion of just having release jars available w/o docs,
>> > source, etc I don't think this is a bad idea :)
>> >
>> > However....
>> >
>> > Any license issues?  Wouldn't we want to package the jar w/ a license ?
>>
>> This simple notion -- and my putting together a Jakarta release HOWTO --
>> is why I opened this particular thread.
>>
>> The license issue is well taken. I think it would be a good practice for
>> us to include a license in all of our JARs. Even when we don't
>> distribute them seperately ourselves, they are intended to be
>> distributed seperately by our licensees. Point noted.
>>
>
>How about including a copy of the "LICENSE" file in the META-INF
>subdirectory of each JAR file produced by an Apache project?

Good suggestion. Log4j-1.2.jar will contain a LICENSE.txt file in the META-INF
subdirectory. Regards, Ceki 


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