On 11/05/2009, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are rather a lot of LICENSE and NOTICE files dotted around the > > source archive. > > > That's in anticipation of the future release model that Sling is > targetting. Instead of a big bang release like this or the previous > release, Sling is planning to start releasing individual components > separately. Each of these components will then need their own > licensing information. Currently Sling includes licensing metadata > both on the top level and on component level.
OK, but they need to be consistent. > > > I would expect the top-level one to be a superset of the lower level > > ones, but this is not the case as the top-level L &or N files don't > > mention Rhino. > > > The source archive does not contain Rhino code, so there's no need to > mention it in the LICENSE or NOTICE files. In which case, please can it be removed? It's confusing. > > > Binary archive > > ========== > > The LICENSE does not mention JSON or Rhino > > The NOTICE file does not mention JSON or Rhino > > > > The nested binary archive contains a copy of Groovy and Jetty, neither > > of which is credited anywhere as far as I can tell. I would expect at > > least a mention in the LICENSE files, as these are not ASF projects. > > > I noted this too [1], but I didn't consider this a blocking issue as > the licensing information of all the embedded dependencies can be > found inside the bundles packaged in resources/bundles within the top > level binaries. For example, the Groovy licensing information can be > found in resources/bundles/0/groovy-all-1.6.0.jar. It would of course > be preferable if this information was included or at least referenced > in the top level LICENSE and NOTICE files. I don't think it's OK to expect users to have to trawl through all the NOTICE and LICENSE files to find all the required information. IMO, the top-level L & N files need to relate to the entire contents. > [1] http://markmail.org/message/nn64fjgnmlxvqov6 > > BR, > > > Jukka Zitting > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
