Well, you can't unpack that jar then run mvn, because there's no pom.xml in
the root. I think there is a way to get the POM in there but it goes into
META-INF. It also never seems to include files like README, COPYING, NOTICE,
etc. The sources jar also doesn't have my layout with src/main/java etc. You
can't compile it. You can't run Maven with it. It doesn't include copyright or
license files or even Apache's own NOTICE files. You can't rebuild the binary
with it (L/GPL compliance). You can't run the unit tests with it.
So in pretty much every way I can think of, it doesn't meet the criteria of
proper source code. It's a source reference jar. Wonderfully appropriate for
use as reference in your favorite IDE. Completely inappropriate for software
development.
Actually when I saw Maven's repo I was very pleased because at first I thought
it had solved the GPL issue like Debian did where you get a src-deb. But it
didn't. The -sources.jar doesn't meet the requirements of the GPL to
distribute that. So technically it seems to me that the typical project in
maven central repository is not compliant with licenses like L/GPL because you
aren't given an opportunity to download source nor a written notice to obtain
the source that is capable of producing the binary. In this sense Maven
totally missed a huge opportunity to assist people in actual, proper L/GPL
compliance where you can use maven-dependency-plugin to include dependency
source. Now it is not legitimately practical to deliver a self-contained
program that a user can run using Maven alone.
Since I'm actually wanting to distribute source that I intend people to open
and modify, I need an archive that has that. Anders's suggestion achieved that
(based on example from Apache).
Jason
On 9/28/2011 4:35 PM, Thiessen, Todd (Todd) wrote:
It's not the sources? Then what is it? It's the actual source for any release
that I have ever done ;-). How do you define REAL source?
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