Reverted r1294943.

Do you know how this was addressed in Commons? Any patches? :)

On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:14 AM, sebb wrote:

> On 29 February 2012 05:11, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/2/29 Jeremy Boynes <jboy...@apache.org>:
>>> Removed from svn. A dry run of the next release shows they are 
>>> automatically added to the source bundle.
>>> 
>> 
>> 1. Where it takes those files from?  Is their content correct.
>> 
>> Besides extra blank lines before and after the text in NOTICE file,
> 
> I'd forgotten about that - that's one reason why we don't use the
> auto-generated N&L files in Commons.
> [In a previous Maven release, IIRC the NOTICE file had even more
> extraneous text]
> 
> Personally, I think it's a big mistake for the Apache Parent to
> generate these files automatically.
> They only apply to projects with no 3rd party dependencies or code.
> IMO the N&L files are too important to be auto-generated.
> 
> Also, by using the auto-generated copies, SVN is left without any N&L
> files at the head of the tree.
> 
> I would urge taglibs to use local copies of N&L files which can be
> properly maintained in SVN, and ignore the auto-generated ones.
> 
>> there is small difference:
>> NOTICE:
>> Copyright 2000-2012 The Apache Software Foundation
>> NOTICE.txt:
>> Copyright 2009-2012 The Apache Software Foundation
>> 
>> Is <inceptionYear> in pom.xml correct (2000) ?
>> 
>> 
>> 2. Looking at site.xml in source bundle and current site at
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/taglibs/
>> 
>> - I do not see a link to  http://www.apache.org/licenses/
>> - I do not see a link to  http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
>> 
>> 3. commons-skin dependency says v.2.  I see that there is v.3 at Maven 
>> Central.
>> 
>> 
>> [x] +1 to go, but I think v2 will be needed before we release any of
>> the taglibs.
>> 
>> It is hard to judge without looking at a site generated from this parent pom.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Konstantin Kolinko
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Mladen Turk wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 02/28/2012 08:57 PM, sebb wrote:
>>>>> On 28 February 2012 16:43, Mladen Turk<mt...@apache.org>  wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Although not sure why you have LICENSE and LICENSE.txt as well
>>>>>> as NOTICE and NOTICE.txt with the same content
>>>>> 
>>>>> That is probably caused by the Apache POM, which tries to be helpful
>>>>> by adding the N&L for you.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Right, that should be the cause.
>>>> 
>>>>> We had to disable that part in Commons, because we don't use the same
>>>>> naming convention (and the AP does not allow for the names to be
>>>>> changed).
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Whatever... Think that this should be easy to solve.
>>>> Just rm extra files if maven will add them automatically
>>>> and the content is satisfactory.
>>>> 
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