2012/6/6 David M Williams <[email protected]>

> Admittedly, there is one day left for Juno RC3, but I can't help but point
> out several (27) missing "about.html" files.
>
> http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reporeports/reports/layoutCheck.txt
>
> Plus, according to another report,
>
>
> http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reporeports/reports/licenseConsistency.html
>
> there are 12 features missing "license" (EUA) files in features.
>
> The observant will notice that the two reports seem to say different
> things (the first saying none are missing license files in features, the
> latter saying 12 are missing).
>
> And they are different things. The first report checks the feature files
> themselves and determines if the file is there or not.
>
> But, the second report is for the "license info" that is part of the
> repository content metadata, which arguably is more important, since it is
> the one that is presented to a users before they install something and the
> users asked "do you agree ... ?" before installing something.
>
> So, the license file can be contained in the feature itself (first report)
> but not "published" correctly to the p2 repository. You'll notice all the
> "missing licenses" say "%license" which is actually a good sign ... that
> probably means there's just something missing in the feature.properties
> file or something (but ... there are a couple of methods of "publishing"
> features ... so, you'll have to check.)
>
> To give one compliment though, Almost everyone one has finally moved up to
> the 2011 license. Last year, there were several hundred that had not.
>
>    - Features with conforming (2011) license: 845
>    - Features with old (2010) license: 21
>
> I fixed this for org.eclipse.egit.import, about.html wasn't listed in
build.properties.
Thanks for finding this problem

-- 
Matthias
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