Luc Maisonobe created MSOURCES-106:
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Summary: Allow inclusion of additional files like LICENSE and
NOTICE in source jar
Key: MSOURCES-106
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSOURCES-106
Project: Maven Source Plugin
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 3.0.1
Environment: all
Reporter: Luc Maisonobe
The source jar, despite not being intended as a full-featured source
distribution, can be considered a derivative work. Some licenses (like the
Apache License!) require that derivative work includes copies of important
legal files, like LICENSE and NOTICE in the case of the
Apache License, but there may be other cases.
Currently, there are no provisions in the source plugin to add files that are
not within
the source tree. Typical Apache projects put the LICENSE and NOTICE at the top
level
of the project, outside of the source tree.
It would be nice to have an optional parameter "additionnalFiles" in the
various goals source:jar, source:jar-no-fork, source:test-jar,
source:tst-jar-no-fork where a list of additional files could be put in the jar
(putting them at the top level of the jar would probably be OK, but some other
plugins put such files in the META-INF directory within the jar)
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