On 1 July 2013 03:56, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
The leading text enclosed in == was never part of the NOTICE file; AIUI it was added by Maven devs when producing the license plugin. Until fairly recently there was one ASF page which incorrectly said "developed by" instead of "developed at"; AFAIK there are now no incorrect references. > And I can see you've raised http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5487 > to track this. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
