Whatever makes sense, is fine by me... -> richard
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:44:12 +0100 "Karl Pauls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 - Good idea. > > regards, > > Karl > > On 12/17/07, Carsten Ziegeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To have correct releases we need to have the LICENSE and NOTICE file in > > each and every distribution. For source distributions these need to be > > in the root directory, for jars they should be in the META-INF dir. > > > > Now, as maven does not provide any support in this area, we currently > > have two sets of these files in our modules: on in the root directory of > > the module and one stored under src/main/resources/META-INF. > > Keeping duplicate information is of course not the best thing :) > > > > I think we could solve this easily by adding the folling resource > > definiton to our parent pom. This definition will require to have > > LICENSE and NOTICE in the root directory of the project and it will copy > > it during the build to the META-INF/ directory in the jar. > > > > Here is the snippet which we have to add to the <build> section: > > <resources> > > <resource> > > <directory>src/main/resources</directory> > > </resource> > > <resource> > > <directory>.</directory> > > <targetPath>META-INF</targetPath> > > <includes> > > <include>LICENSE</include> > > <include>NOTICE</include> > > </includes> > > </resource> > > </resources> > > > > I did some tests and at least these worked for me. > > > > WDYT? > > Carsten > > > > -- > > Carsten Ziegeler > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > Karl Pauls > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
