On 1 July 2013 06:52, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another problem: the NOTICE file contains the following spurious text:
>
>    =========================================================================
>    ==  NOTICE file corresponding to the section 4 d of                    ==
>    ==  the Apache License, Version 2.0,                                   ==
>    ==  in this case for the Apache Maven distribution.                    ==
>    =========================================================================
>
> This must not be present in NOTICE files, which are required to be as
> short as possible (but no shorter).
>
> ASF NOTICE files must start as per the following example:
>
> ====================
> Apache Maven
> Copyright 2001-2013 The Apache Software Foundation
>
> This product includes software developed at
> The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
> ==================
>
> Note also that the phrase should be "developed at" not "developed by"
> - the distinction is important.
>
> Furthermore, the NOTICE file refers to additonal 3rd party software,
> but there don't appear to be any LICENSE files for the software.
> The licenses should either be in LICENSE.txt or linked therefrom.

>From what I can tell we have been failing this since August 2010.
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git;a=blob;f=apache-maven/NOTICE.txt;hb=bfaf11090a212f8445f2ad929af8acce5a984bf0

I can't find change history for
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html so I don't know if we
have been failing all the time, or since it was changed.

And I can see you've raised http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5487
to track this.

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