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Simon Kitching commented on COMMONSSITE-21:
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Yes, it does seem that there is no official policy on license/notice files in
svn.
However I'm not convinced by the argument that since any dir can be checked
out, there is no logical place to put license/notice files in svn. The svn
contents are very clearly structured into modules which are "compilable units".
Yes, theoretically someone could check out some leaf directory then claim that
the files "have no license information available", but that's a pretty thin
excuse. Anyone capable of reusing java code would know where the module
("compilable unit") starts. That is the sensible point at which to check things
out - and the license/notice info should be available at that level.
It's just like putting copyright info inside the cover of a book. It doesn't
need to be on every page, because the book is the minimum distributable unit.
But in the case of a book series, it is not adequate to put the information in
just one of the books in the set. Ok, the analogy isn't perfect because books
do not have a "raw" and "compiled" form both available to users. But making
source code available on the web via svn *is* publishing, and so
notice/copyright should be available there too, without requiring someone to
look into a pom and determine where a maven plugin will pull the information
from during a build.
> commons-parent-6 pom changes
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>
> Key: COMMONSSITE-21
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMMONSSITE-21
> Project: Commons All
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Commons Parent Pom
> Reporter: Niall Pemberton
> Attachments: commons-valdiator-generated-NOTICE.txt,
> COMMONSSITE-21-commons-parent-pom-v1.patch,
> COMMONSSITE-21-commons-parent-pom-v2.patch
>
>
> Opening this ticket to discuss changes for Version 6 of the commons-parent
> pom.
> See thread: http://tinyurl.com/39eo9z for related discussion/issues
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