On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Florian Hopf <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17.01.2014 17:50, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> With a little push we could have a release before Fosdem. That would >> be good to mention there, if we had a new release. > > > That's an ambitioned target but we could at least try ;) >
Yes, that was ambitious ;-) > >> I'll volunteer to be the Release Manager for this release. I don't >> have anything I need to urgently get into the release. I'll update >> the copyright date, for example, to 2014. But I have no additional >> code planned for this release. > > > Thanks for stepping in as a release manager. I hope I have written down > everything correctly in the release guide at > http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odftoolkit-release-guide.html > I read that over. The SVN automation part is a little scary. Hopefully I'm not the first person to try that part of the release script. > I think we need to take extra care to get the Maven repository release right > this time. The project should now be set up correctly to do most of it > automatically. > > I'll try to help you with the release as good as I can. > > >> If anyone else has something that they'd like to get into this >> release, please speak up, so we can give time to integrate and test >> before the release. >> > > Is there still an unresolved issue with the licensing of the new dependency > or has this been solved outside the list? This is the thread I am referring > to: http://markmail.org/thread/ej4sv5c22l7rco7z > I brought this up on legal-discuss mailing list. The underlying license on that library was the BSD 3-clause license. I was able to confirm that this was category-A. So we can use it as a dependency. I think Svante was in contact with the author who was willing to make the license more explicit in the component. A LICENSE file in the root of the JAR would be good, for example. > Regards > Florian > > -- > Florian Hopf > Freelance Software Developer > > http://blog.florian-hopf.de
