Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 12.06.2008, 09:18 +0200 schrieb Carsten Ziegeler:
> I just talked with Felix offline about this and we came up with the 
> following solution which should meet the requirements.
> 
> As Roy points out we have to distinguish between source and binary 
> distributions (and yes, the ASF does only source releases, I know, 
> however for convenience we're creating binary artifacts as well).
> 
> We'll change the NOTICE/LICENCE files in the root ouf the source tree to 
> just mention the stuff contained in the source - in most cases this is 
> just Apache code, except the json stuff. Please note that we still will 
> have a NOTICE/LICENCE pair in the root of each bundle directory as we'll 
> have separate releases of bundles in the future.
> 
> In addition we will add a NOTICE/LICENCE file for each bundle under the 
> src/main/resource/META-INF that contains the appropriate info for the 
> binary releases.

plus: we only list required attributions in the NOTICE files
plus: we add LICENSE.xxx files for included inclued 3rd party libs
      (if required)
plus: we refer to the LICENSE.xxx files in the LICENSE file

> There are different opinions about the DISCLAIMER - some people say it's 
> sufficient to have them in a README, some people claim it must be a file 
> named DISCLAIMER - anyways, the incubator docs say it must be 
> "somewhere", so we'll move this into a readme file in the root directory 
> and add the DISCLAIMER file to META-INF for binary releases.
> 
> Finally we'll try to add meaningfull readme files to each bundle, 
> although the current pom's already have some information (might not be 
> perfect though).
> 
> Everyone ok with this approach?

+1

Regards
Felix

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