Hi Antonio,
On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Antonio Vieiro <anto...@vieiro.net> wrote:
> I understand, thanks for the info.
>
> I think that once we have maven group/artifact/version coordinates for
> each of the files in binaries_list we could try to automatically generate
> notice files (as in [1]).
>
> I’ll take a look at how this can be automated.
>
Did you have a chance to look at this? I think it would be good to start
looking at producing the appropriate LICENSE/NOTICE(/DEPENDENCIES) files
for distributions we do, should I look at that, or is that part of what you
want to look at?
Thanks,
Jan
> Cheers,
> Antonio
>
> [1] https://wiki.jasig.org/display/LIC/maven-notice-plugin
>
>
> > El 8 oct 2017, a las 11:53, Jan Lahoda <lah...@gmail.com> escribió:
> >
> > Hi Antonio,
> >
> > (my) intent here was to include the -notice.txt file if the given library
> > would need an entry in the NOTICE file. The build then would (although it
> > does not right now) merge the -notice.txt files into the NOTICE file for
> > the given distribution. Source distributions would not have them merged,
> as
> > they don't directly contain the dependencies, but binary distributions
> that
> > contain the library would have the -notice.txt added into the NOTICE
> file.
> >
> > The description when the NOTICE for a library is required is here:
> > http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 7:36 AM, Antonio <anto...@vieiro.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> From the list of modules to review I see:
> >>
> >> add "-notice.txt" if needed with any required notices
> >>
> >> a) What does "if needed" exactly mean? When is a notice file required?
> >> b) From [1],
> >> == DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY. IT IS GENERATED
> >> == BY THE buildnotice TARGET IN THE TOP LEVEL build.xml FILE.
> >> But "buildnotice" is not in NetBeans build.xml.
> >>
> >
> > I believe this notice is copied from the derby library (where they
> > apparently are generating automatically similarly to the above plan).
> >
> >
> >>
> >> So, do we have to add a "-notice.txt" file? When? Or is is automatically
> >> generated somehow?
> >>
> >
> > If the (external) library requires an entry in NOTICE per the policy
> above,
> > then it should have a -notice.txt, and the build will (hopefully at some
> > point) merge it into a master NOTICE as needed.
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Antonio
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/blob/master/db/
> >> external/derby-10.2.2.0-notice.txt
> >>
>
>
