The quickest solution for now is to introduce new plexus root parent with
license element.
at least we can said it is, free, free ;-)

then migrate all submodules to use the new parent.

-D


On 2/14/07, Carlos Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

you could check the parent pom. In this case not even the parent has
license.

Anything that should be done in the future to clarify the legal aspects?

On 2/14/07, Deepak Bhole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:21 -0800, Carlos Sanchez wrote:
> > The license should be inside the pom <licenses> section, or in the
> > maven1 repo in the .license files
> >
>
> Very few of the poms I am seeing have licenses. For example, even the
> critical plexus ones don't have one:
>
>
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-archiver/1.0-alpha-8/plexus-archiver-1.0-alpha-8.pom
>
> In many cases, it it hard to tell who wrote the file. Like the above
> file for instance, I don't know if it was written by the plexus guys (in
> which case that license applies), or if someone from maven side wrote it
> (APL in that case)...
>
> Deepak
>
>
> > On 2/13/07, Deepak Bhole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > What license are the pom files in the maven2 repository
> > > (repo1.maven.org/maven2) under? We need to know if we are allowed to
> > > redistribute those poms with Fedora.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Deepak
> > >
> > >
> > >
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