On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto:
>>
>> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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>>> 2) Added the rat checks to the pom so I was able to run rat easily.
>>> Everything is ok but I had to add this excludes:
>>> <exclude>NOTICE.base</exclude>
>>> <exclude>LICENSE.apache</exclude>
>>> they are used by the ANT build to put "better" NOTICE/LICENSE in the
>>> resulting jars.
>>>
>>> <exclude>src/site/resources/rfc2234.txt</exclude>
>>> <exclude>src/site/resources/rfc2244.txt</exclude>
>>> <exclude>src/site/resources/rfc2298.txt</exclude>
>>> <exclude>src/site/resources/rfc3028.txt</exclude>
>>> They are rfc: do they need a license header?
>>
>> they include a license header just not an Apache one ;-) it should be
>> retained unchanged.
>>
>> i'm not sure whether to remove them complete and just use links or to
>> add a LICENSE.rfcs document at top level (since we only distribute
>> them with the source).
>
> rfc are documents not likely to be removed from the internet so I think
> there is no need to include them in our source distribution and we can
> simply use links in our website.
>
> It does not make sense to worry about licensing and notice for not critical
> files: let's remove them.

i quite like them but can easily live without them. i've removed them.

- robert

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