On 02/09/2009, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:52 AM, sebb<seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On 02/09/2009, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>
>
> >> I did a cross-check to make sure only the used dependencies were
>  >>  mentioned in the LICENSE and got the notices sniptes from these
>  >>  required dependencies. Do you see a specific piece that should be
>  >> removed ?
>  >
>  > The point is that dependencies that are used, but not actually
>  > included, should not be mentioned in the NOTICE file as they do not
>  > form part of the artifact.
>  >
>  > As it stands, the NOTICE file is confusing/misleading, and IMO should be 
> fixed.
>  >
>  > I've not checked the NOTICE file entries in detail, but a quick check
>  > failed to find the Axion (not Axiom) jar anywhere. Likewise Howl,
>  > JDOM, DOM4j. Perhaps these are included in other libraries.
>  >
>
>
> The photark-webapp.war:/WEB-INF/lib contains the following axiom jars
>  that are used by some Tuscany databindings used in photArk.
>
>  axiom-api-1.2.7.jar
>  axiom-impl-1.2.7.jar

Sigh. The NOTICE file refers to Axion, not Axiom:

<quote>
This product includes/uses the Axion : the Open Source Java Database
(http://axion.tigris.org/)
 Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Axion Development Team. All rights reserved.
</quote>

>  JDOM and DOM4j and Howl were mentioned in the Tuscany notices, but it
>  seems we are not using the actual dependencies.
>  I'm not sure if this is really a blocker for the release, but I'll be
>  fixing it on the trunk to make sure we don't have this issue in teh
>  future.
>
>
>  > The LICENSE file lists addressing-1.3.mar but there appears to be no such 
> file.
>  >
>  > The following files in LICENSE don't agree with the contents of the
>  > lib directory in the war:
>  >
>  > cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar
>  > geronimo-commonj_1.1_spec-1.0.jar
>  >
>
>
> The photark-webapp.war:/WEB-INF/lib contains the following cglib jar
>  (note that there is a version mismatch only in this case)
>
>  cglib-nodep-2.2.jar

Yes, but the geronimo jar is a different jar.

>
>  >>  > There are no NOTICE and LICENSE files in the META-INF directory in the
>  >>  > war file; ideally these should be present - in this case they will be
>  >>  > the same as the ones in the binary archive.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > There's some inconsistency between the NOTICE files.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > The top-level NOTICE file in the binary archive says:
>  >>  >
>  >>  > Copyright (c) 2008 - 2009
>  >>  >
>  >>  > whereas the NOTICE file in the photoark-assets-M1-incubating.jar
>  >>  > META-INF directory says:
>  >>  >
>  >>  > Copyright (c) 2005 - 2008 The Apache Software Foundation
>  >>  >
>  >>  > The parent pom says the inception year is 2008, so the latter file 
> looks wrong.
>  >>  > Seems to be an error in the NOTICE skeleton files.
>  >>  >
>  >>
>
>
> Fixed in trunk in the assets jar.
>
>
>  >>
>  >> These does not seem as release blockers to me. Do you agree ?
>
>
> These are all fixed in both release branch (svn #810595) and trunk
>  (svn #810601). Do you really think we need another respin or having
>  these fixed in SVN are enough to get a positive vote from you ?
>

It's good that the problems are fixed in SVN, but that does not change
the release unless it is re-spun.

The NOTICE and LICENSE files are important parts of a release; IMO the
current contents of the release don't warrant a +1 from me.

>
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>
> Luciano Resende
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>  http://lresende.blogspot.com/
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