On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Rick McGuire wrote: > I've been working on moving the org.apache.geronimo.bundles components out of > the server tree into its own top-level project so these bundles can be > released separately. The working copy can be found here: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/bundles/trunk > > One issue is how the legal files need to be handled. Since these bundles > contain code developed under other licenses, that information needs to be > noted in these jars. In addition, the release plugin is gives an error on > these components because the source artifact does not contain legal files. > > I've taken a first pass at fixing this for two of the components, asm-3.1 and > jaxb-impl. Here are the steps I've taken: > > 1) Added a NOTICE and LICENSE file to root of the subproject. This solved > the problem of release plugin error. > 2) Added src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/LICENSE.vm and NOTICE.vm files > to the subproject. These files get appended to the standard apache license > files and will contain the LICENSE and NOTICE information for the source jar. > The NOTICE and LICENSE files used in the assembly boilerplate is used as the > source of the information when possible. All jars will have a LICENSE.vm > file, but not all need to have a NOTICE.vm. The asm-3.1 does not require the > NOTICE, jaxb-impl does (which I why I chose these for the initial work). > > I believe this will satisfy our requirements for redistributing these jars, > but I'd like some feedback on whether these two are correct before I make the > changes to all of the subproject.
I haven't looked at the specific test cases, but that sounds like the right approach. Thanks for doing this Rick. --kevan
