On 10/01/2008, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 3:41 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/01/2008, Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I forgot to note: The distribution is available on > > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~jochen/commons-fileupload/dist > > > > -1: > > The NOTICE files in the jars are non-standard. They also refer to > > Commons-IO which is not part of the jar. The NOTICE file is *only* for > > items that are included in the distribution, not external > > dependencies. > > Is this true? I realize the following document has still (after 18 > months) not yet been made official ASF policy, but in the absence of > any other then there are two sections which seem relevant: > - System Requirements > - Optional Add-ons > http://people.apache.org/~rubys/3party.html#options-systemrequirements > > If for example we have component which can use 3rd Party work that > comes under the "excluded licenses" (from memory I think VFS did this) > then we have an obligation to inform the users of this and the NOTICE > file seems an appropriate place to do this. Having the dependencies > and their licenses listed seems like a *good thing* to me for users to > be confident of all the licensing implications of using a distro. > Anyway if theres contention on the format of the NOTICE in this > release then we should ask on legal-discuss to see if we can get an > answer whether its valid or not. I will try to do this later but I'm > going out soon - so hopefully someone else will beat me to it. >
I think the above is mainly about including the 3rd party code in distributions ... "inclusion within" See: http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#NOTICE for details of the NOTICE contents. > Niall > > > The NOTICE.txt files in the archives are OK; the same files should be > > in the jars. > > > > -0: MD5 and SHA1 files should have "space *" - not just a single space > > - between the hash and the filename. This should be fixed if there are > > any other reasons to recreate them. > > > > > The proposed site is at > > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~jochen/commons-fileupload/site > > > > Cannot find any reference to which versions of Java are supported. > > > > What does "(optional)" mean in the Dependencies section under Commons IO? > > > > Javadoc footer looks wrong: > > > > Copyright Â(c) > > > > Not sure what the A-circumflex character is doing there. > > Should probably use © instead of actual characters if possible > > (as is done in the cross-reference) > > > > I assume that the SVN tag is: > > > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/fileupload/tags/commons-fileupload-1.2.1rc3/ > > > > > > > Sorry, > > > > > > Jochen > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
