On Dec 19, 2007, at 16:12, Mark Brouwer wrote:
Bob Scheifler wrote:
Frank Barnaby wrote:
Given the fact the PREFERRED.LIST is part of the download JAR
file I also can't say I'm particularly happy with it given the
fact that it adds up a few bytes for download JAR file size, even
while compressed it is only a few hundred bytes.
So, is this something others feel strongly about?
I probably feel more strongly about the license language being
added to the very short example files that we want people to look at;
all it really does it get in the way. But to placate the Apache
legal gods
I'd put the license language wherever you can (as you had done).
:-)
My remark was not intended to stop adding the license language in the
PREFERRED.LIST, I just find it a bit over the top, especially now that
it has to go 'into the middle'.
I did look at the license headers in the examples and I personally
don't
have a problem with them but that is likely due to the fact I'm used
to
license headers in files people actually look at.
At the other hand for the Cheiron project I put the NOTICE and LICENSE
in the download JAR files of services as they are actually
transfered to
clients of the service and end up on file systems, where they might
linger in eternity. No doubt people find that insane too, but once I
felt it made sense :-)
Thanks for the comments Mark and Bob. I've since reinserted the
license headers and committed the changes. I've also rebuilt the
release-candidates and am in the process of uploading them to
people.apache.org (I removed the release-candidates area from the
repository). I'll send out a notification as soon as the upload is
complete.
Frank
