On Aug 17, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Kalle Korhonen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:09 PM, David Jencks <david_jen...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Dunno if it's exactly documentation but see this from Roy Fielding.... >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-26?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12732740#action_12732740 >> Based on this I've been advising projects to put the apache LICENSE and and >> a NOTICE file that covers the actual contents of svn (i.e. not including >> stuff that is added to binaries as part of the build process) at expected >> svn checkout roots such as, here, >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shiro/trunk. >> I don't consider this a barrier to graduation.. >> +1 > > Thanks (and for voting too!). Seems that I'm not only one who's been > pondering about this. With 17 Maven sub-modules of Shiro seems that > we'd need 17 copies of the license files scattered around our source > tree. I'm with Stefano there: I do contest the view that svn is the > release, but let's leave that for another thread.
Unless your 17 sub-modules are under separate release cycles I wouldn't consider them expected svn checkout roots so one copy of the license at the root would be sufficient. I have somewhat mixed feelings about this policy. On the one hand it's a nuisance to include a LICENSE file in svn where it isn't part of an official apache release, thus possibly not legally required, On the other hand I think that for most projects where there only a few expected svn checkout roots it serves to greatly increase clarity and convenience for non-asf-pros who happen to check out the source tree to have a quick look. So on balance I think its a good idea. If you really want to torture yourself you can look up the discussion of this and related issues on legal-discuss :-) thanks david jencks > I'm watching the > issue and perhaps I'll restore the LICENSE file on top of the tree. > > Kalle > > >> On Aug 16, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Kalle Korhonen wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:43 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Also, just noticed that the SVN tree does not appear to have a copy of >>>> the LICENSE file. >>>> Normally this is stored alongside the NOTICE file at the top-level, i.e. in >>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shiro/trunk/ >>>> Looks like the file was deleted in the following commit: >>>> r979180 | kaosko | 2010-07-26 07:45:44 +0100 (Mon, 26 Jul 2010) | 1 line >>>> Was this intentional? >>> >>> Yes, that was intentional, see the commit message: >>> "Follow through on the suggestions given when 1.0.0 release was made. >>> Removed LICENSE.txt as that is added to the source distro via Apache >>> parent pom and its remote resource plugin configuration. Renamed >>> NOTICE.txt to NOTICE so it'll replace the default one. Note that >>> http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice indicates that the >>> LICENSE file needs to be present only in the source distro (and not in >>> svn as Sebb claimed) so we are ok. Also note that ant suggested >>> removing the SoftHashMap and Spring related comments completely from >>> NOTICE file but they are regarding copyrights so look fine to me, will >>> confirm on dev list." >>> >>> If you can point out any documentation that says LICENSE will is >>> required in svn, I'll put it in otherwise I'll avoid the redundancy. >>> In any case, thanks for taking a look! >>> >>> More recently, I also integrated apache-rat (the maven plugin) to our >>> build process. >>> >>> Kalle >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
