On 26 March 2012 16:20, Roy T. Fielding <field...@gbiv.com> wrote: > On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Karl Wright wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:24 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 26 March 2012 02:38, Shinichiro Abe <shinichiro.ab...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hello Incubator IPMC, >>>> >>>> Please vote on whether or not to release ManifoldCF 0.5-incubating, RC0. >>>> This RC has passed our podling vote and awaits your inspection. >>>> You can find the artifact at >>>> http://people.apache.org/~shinichiro/apache-manifoldcf-0.5-incubating-RC0/, >>>> or >>>> in svn at >>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lcf/tags/release-0.5-incubating-RC0/. >>> >>> The NOTICE file says: >>> Apache ManifoldCF >>> Copyright 2010-2011 The Apache Software Foundation >>> >>> The LICENSE file includes references to lots of jars that are dual >>> licensed under CDDL v1.0 and GPL v2. >>> However, there is no indication which license has been chosen by the >>> project. >>> >>> I think this is a blocker. > > A project does not choose a license. The license is provided by the copyright > owner. We do not change that license, nor do we reduce the number of the > available licenses to choose from, for downstream recipients. Therefore, > it doesn't make any sense to indicate which one is "chosen". > > In any case, the indicated artifacts are only included in binary packages. > We don't release binaries, so none of these licenses belong in our source > product's LICENSE file. We need to be clear that the source code package > does not include these dependencies. They only exist in binary distributions.
That's not the case with this product at present; all the jars are actually in SVN and they are also in the source and binary archives. > If the project constructs binary distributions via a shared process, then > the LICENSE/NOTICE files for those distribution packages need to be > constructed > as well --- either by appending a separate file (that contains just the > licenses/notices that are added for the binary package) or by maintaining a > separate LICENSE/NOTICE set for the binary package. > > ....Roy > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
