On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote:
Hi,
On Jan 4, 2008 5:31 AM, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+1 for this release, and note to developers to have a DISCLAIMER file
separately in both source release and the META-INF dir of the binary.
Will do.
On a related note, when and how did the DISCLAIMER file come to exist?
I guess it's a legacy of Wicket, since that was the first time I
recall seeing the file. To me it seems debatable whether the
disclaimer is more prominent within the README file or in a separate
DISCLAIMER file, but I'm OK to go with the latter if people prefer
that.
I am also curious to know how Andy's and Ryan's contributions "came
to be". Do
we have any paper trail of this?
The notice for Andy Clark was added for the NekoHTML [1] dependency
(ALv2). The Tika codebase doesn't actually contain any of that code,
just uses it as a dependency, so AFAIK the attribution in NOTICE
wouldn't actually be needed. It got added [2] a while ago when we were
considering a release bundle that contains all the dependencies. The
notice was briefly questioned [3] and discussed [4] on tika-dev@ but
so far no action was taken on it.
The notice for Ryan Ackley is more substantial, as the Tika codebase
contains a few classes (part of [5]) from his now-dormant
textmining.org [6] codebase. Those classes found their way into Tika
via the Nutch and Lius Lite codebases and their status was considered
on tika-dev@ with Ryan on Cc [7].
IMO, the attribution for Ryan Ackley in the NOTICE file should include
the copyright for those source files (i.e. "Copyright 2004 Ryan
Ackley"). Could also ask for permission to remove the copyright from
those source files or move them to the NOTICE file as described in http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#header-existingcopyright
Everything else looked good...
+1
--kevan
