I agree with doing a source release now while gradually fixing a binary
release.

On Monday, September 5, 2016, Suneel Marthi <smar...@apache.org> wrote:

> Its easy to do what Andy is describing using maven's assembly plugin in the
> maven world. I have no experience with sbt so can't speak to how it can be
> done with Sbt and would defer that to the experts.
>
> We hit a similar issue with licenses in source and binary on the first Pirk
> release last week. We finally decided to make a source-only first release
> while we r now working on fixing the binary license packaging for the next
> release.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Andrew Purtell <andrew.purt...@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > It covers LICENSE and NOTICE file generation for both source and binary
> > releases, and inclusion of the resulting files in source archives, binary
> > jars, and binary archives through integration with the maven build and
> > assembly targets.
> >
> > Including the complete text of any given license in LICENSE is important
> > but only needs to be done once. You retain the copyright notice and
> mention
> > of the license type per dependency. We are just talking about
> > deduplicating, eg 100 full texts of the ASLv2 into one.
> >
> > > On Sep 5, 2016, at 10:45 AM, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks Andy.
> > >
> > > RE “Only need to include one entry with the complete text of a license,
> > everything else can just name the license.” So the copyright notice in
> the
> > license is not important, only the license type? This is often the only
> > important difference in the license from one dep to another.
> > >
> > > It sounds like your automation covered LICENSE.txt creation? or just
> > inclusion in the binary?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sep 5, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Andrew Purtell <andrew.purt...@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I won't weigh in on the question at hand but I'd like to make a couple
> > of clarifications for what it is worth:
> > >
> > >> This yielded 166 deps, so this implies we need to include 166 licenses
> > and copyright notices in LICENSE.txt.
> > >
> > > There are some available simplifications:
> > >
> > > - Only need to include one entry with the complete text of a license,
> > everything else can just name the license.
> > >
> > > - Where there are multiple artifacts coming from a single project, like
> > Hadoop, only one entry for the project is needed.
> > >
> > >> Donald is looking at automating this but I’m personally dubious
> > >
> > > As I think I've mentioned before here we have successfully automated
> > this for HBase (based on automation done by yet other Apache projects)
> so I
> > hope you'll take my advice and evidence based assertion it can be done.
> > Caveat: we use maven not SBT as build framework.
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On Sep 5, 2016, at 9:43 AM, Pat Ferrel <p...@actionml.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> This weekend I tracked down all out deps, which required a few scripts
> > to process sbt output. This yielded 166 deps, so this implies we need to
> > include 166 licenses and copyright notices in LICENSE.txt. As I read the
> > Apache guidelines this should be the license that goes with the version
> we
> > include since the copyright owner of license may have changed in newer
> > versions.
> > >>
> > >> This may be near impossible to maintain by hand if we have frequent
> > dependency upgrades and frequent releases. Donald is looking at
> automating
> > this but I’m personally dubious about this because it require all 166
> deps
> > have maintained their licenses in artifacts for all versions we might
> use.
> > >>
> > >> A source release requires that *only* the source included be reflected
> > in LICENSES.txt. This would be ~0, I think a couple things are included.
> > >>
> > >> Several things lead me to favor a source-only release:
> > >> 1) 166 licenses needed for binary ~0 needed for source—I’d rather we
> > spend time on things that add more value
> > >> 2) I have never used the binary release. Any version of a source
> > download and `./make-dirstribution` works universally.
> > >> 3) our install.sh now installs source and builds it for the user. This
> > is good because we can use the same script for unreleased -SNAPSHOT
> > versions sitting in the `develop` branch.
> > >> 4) outside of instructions for downloading and installing the binary
> > that do not yet exist afaik, there would be no obvious way for the user
> to
> > get the binary.
> > >> 5) indirectly any delay to release is getting to be a serious problem.
> > We haven’t had a well supported release from the main project since close
> > on a year ago and work on new features is being delayed.
> > >> 6) we can do a source only release now and be clean of the license
> > issue as far as the IPMC is concerned. We can add binary when we have a
> > better answer to automation. In other words why hold the release for
> binary?
> > >>
> > >> Since this decision will affect the project for as long as it is in
> > incubation. I’d like to see what others think. I believe we can release
> now
> > if we do source-only.
> > >>
> > >> Source only, or source & binary?
> > >
> >
>

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