On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:23 AM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1 > > +1 > > > though i do think for the next release all those separate licenses in the > > top level folder should be merged into the single LICENSE and NOTICE > files. > > And this is where I disagree strongly. Licenses for 3rd party > libraries should be separate from licenses covering the source code. > It is not like these licenses are not easy to find, nor easy to > overlook. In fact: putting them all in one file makes it impossible to > ascertain which license covers which product. A 64 page license file > is never read. > > Martijn > Sure, and we seem to be accepting either approach as ok these days in the poddling reviews, though if lots of separate files are being used i think its probably better to put them somewhere other than the top level folder. What i was hinting at in the previous email is that the copyright statements are also in the seperate license files and I think they should be really be copied to or at least pointed to from the top NOTICE file. ...ant
