I think this is probably OK, it seems like these rules are not hard and fast.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Jim Donofrio <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok I will make the file NOTICE.txt contain the NOTICE.txt for the source > distribution. I will leave the notice for the convenience binary at the root > of the svn but call it BIN-NOTICE.txt to be clear that it is for the binary > distribution. Is this ok? > > I took this example from Whirr, so maybe someone should let them know to > also fix their distributions. > > > On 04/04/2012 07:30 PM, sebb wrote: >> >> On 4 April 2012 15:33, Marvin Humphrey<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Brock Noland<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:33 AM, sebb<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> The tag to be voted upon: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/mrunit/tags/release-0.9.0-incubating/ >>>>> >>>>> There's a NOTICE.txt and NOTICE-src.txt at the top level. >>>>> >>>>> IMO the primary NOTICE file should be for the source. >>>>> >>>> So there would be a NOTICE-bin.txt and a NOTICE.txt? >>> >>> The Apache License 2.0 only makes mention of a "NOTICE" file, not >>> "NOTICE-bin" >>> (or "NOTICE-src"). >>> >>> The top priority is that the NOTICE[.txt] file in the canonical source >>> release >>> be correct and complete. That's what we're voting on and what the ASF is >>> endorsing. >> >> +1 >> >>> I haven't yet arrived at a position regarding the -bin/-deps situation. >>> At >>> this point, I wouldn't -1 a source release that contains irrelevant and >>> misleading information in a file called "NOTICE-bin.txt" about >>> dependencies >>> which are not present, but that could change. >> >> So long as the file is called NOTICE.txt (or NOTICE) and is at the >> top-level of a binary archive, it does not matter what it is called in >> SVN. To avoid confusion, probably best to rename or move the version >> of the NOTICE file for binary releases. Since the binary file is just >> an extended version of the source NOTICE file (at least in this case), >> the binary version could be generated by concatenation. >> >>> Marvin Humphrey >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> > -- Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce - http://incubator.apache.org/mrunit/
