Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote on 01/12/2009 07:24:52 AM:
> I would like to add the wish to add this file as a jar within a W3C > maven repository, > > maven is a build system based on declarative dependencies marking. > The objective of a W3C maven repository would be to offer, in a way > transparent to people that "just checkout souces", a linking to W3C > code without this code being hosted at an external project such as the > Apache Software Foundation. > > I think what bothers several Apache developers is to have source code > in their repository which is "not wished to be changed". Allowing > download form W3C would prevent that common objection. > > A very long discussion happened about W3C sources: > > http://markmail.org/message/wqv6jo23gzyulvnf?q=w3c+legal- > discuss+list:org%2Eapache%2Elegal-discuss+from:%22Benson+Margulies% > 22+type:general&page=1 Not sure how that discussion is relevant to API sources which are usually made available under the W3C Software License [1]. Note that this license is listed under Category A [2] so would seem the ASF legal folks already regard it as acceptable to be in Apache's source repository. > In terms of organization, it is a very simple http directory layout, > and the indication of the repository for the people using that > deployment. All maven downloads are cached so there's really no > performance penalty. > > thanks in advance > > paul Thanks. [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#category-a Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
