On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 25/10/2012, at 5:11 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> I'm a bit confused by the LICENSE and NOTICE files that are in the root of >>> the package. >>> >>> They seem to be LICENSE/NOTICE files that would be good for a binary >>> distribution of Cloudstack built from this package, but don't really apply >>> to this package. Or maybe they were from before the dep jars were changed >>> to be grabbed via maven and were part of the src. Right? >>> >>> The license file lists license for jars in lib and aws and such that don't >>> exist. Likewise for the NOTICE file. >>> >>> Don't get me wrong. I think these LICENSE/NOTICE files are great to have >>> for people that are building binary distributions of Cloudstack and having >>> that information available to them certainly takes much of the burden off >>> of them, but I do question if they are appropriate for the Apache source >>> based releases. >>> >>> >>> Dan >> >> Dan, >> >> Yes, the jars referenced in the legal docs are pulled in by the >> packaging process. The expectation was that the material would be >> brought into any packaging (including the non-asf, but community >> provided, deb/rpm's). When looking for examples from other ASF >> projects, IIRC I saw both approaches (I'll have to dig a bit to find >> the examples that I was looking at). At one point, I had a "*_BINARY" >> version of both files and the standard files for the source itself, >> but I then decided to simplify into a single set that would work for >> both situations. >> >> So I guess the question is this: is this an acceptable approach or not? > > I don't see a problem with this - someone building the source is going to > have to accept the licenses of those non-optional dependencies too since > they'll get dragged down automatically. Perhaps the files could have a > separator indicating the following apply only to binaries built from the > sources in future releases?
Good idea Brett. Now if only I could get folks to respond to my first Apache Whisker bug [1]... then I'd be willing to add more features to Whisker for stuff like this. ;-) I really don't want to stop using Whisker, since it makes maintenance much easier. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/creadur-dev/201210.mbox/%3CCA%2B96GG5Pg9YfqiBL9WaGkG2kBf_1bD5MxFG1Tbnh1via4woOKA%40mail.gmail.com%3E > - Brett > > -- > Brett Porter > br...@apache.org > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter > http://twitter.com/brettporter > > > > > >
