On Dec 2, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Jakob Homan wrote: > So I hope it's clear why it's frustrating to > have this rule suddenly pop up when it's apparently not enforced in > the majority of cases (and then to be asked to go and open JIRAs for > each of these projects on top of it).
This requirement is fairly well documented, IMO. The incubator's release documentation is here -- http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html The LICENSE and NOTICE file requirements are documented here -- http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#best-practice-license. I don't think this should come as a big surprise... OK. Some of that wording is too weak, IMO. "All the licenses on all the files to be included within a package should be included in the LICENSE document. " The "should be" is probably referring to a single LICENSE file as opposed to multiple license files in a license/ directory. I do understand that this is a frustrating process. You have code that's ready and want to release it. Many projects going through the incubator have gone through this same pain. However, it is important, IMO. I spend a fair amount of time on the Geronimo project. We have a lot of dependencies… http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/trunk/LICENSE We document source and binary licenses in a single LICENSE/NOTICE file. I have seen projects maintain separate LICENSE/NOTICE files for their source and binary distributions. To be honest, I'm not sure what form is preferred. I'd be happy to see either… --kevan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
