Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto:
apache has access to lawyers but the question needs to be clear and
one of legality not policy
Here is the summary I wrote to legal-discuss and repository lists the
past october. I already referenced it in previous mail but maybe a
copy&paste is more explicit:
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"legal issues" summary is:
1) Are the "simplest" pom.xml (artifactId+groupId+license
information+dependencies) copyrightable?
2) What licenses should we allow for pom.xml in order to make *legal*
the current use of the central maven repository?
3) Can the license for the pom.xml be described in the xml itself or we
need the whole license header like the one we would prepend to any other
xml file? The pom.xml is often a redistributable "as is", without being
included in a package: does this need a special "license header" ?
The technical/procedural issues for the repository management are:
A) How to tweak the current procedures to avoid publishing of new
pom.xml without a license or without an acceptable license (BSD, MIT,
ASL, W3C..., depending on answers about #2 above)
B) How to deal with the current poms not having a license.
C) What to do when a pom is already published in a 3rd party repository
under an incompatible license: we cannot copy it, and probably is not a
good practice to create another pom with the same artifactId/groupId but
with different informations.
D) How to "evangelize" projects to make sure that future pom.xml (and
other resources like site.xml) includes the license header (e.g: make
sure maven plugins bugs are solved ASAP and high priority)
Stefano
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My opinion is that the whole issue should be an HIGH priority for the
ASF but I'm not entitled in spamming the lists to give this more
visibility. Maybe you or another *member* would be taken in better
consideration.
I can give more details on each of the questions described above, if needed.
Stefano
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