That would do it for me, but its been a contentious issue in the
Incubator so you may want to try to find one more person who says
they'd vote +1, another mentor or something, before going to the
trouble of a respin like that.

   ...ant

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <r...@apache.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation and pointers.
>
> The reason the license files is not at the root is that we are releasing a
> few dozen modules which are released together for voting convenience but
> could also released separately. I suggest to add a note in the readme
> pointing out that the some modules contain additional license and notice
> files.
>
> Cheers,
> Reto
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:10 AM, ant elder <antel...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> The issue is that ASF release artifacts should have in their root a
>> LICENSE file which includes all the licensing details of the artifact.
>>
>> This source release artifact,
>> clerezza-0.2-incubating-source-release.zip, does have a LICENSE file
>> at its root, but that file has no mention that the source distribution
>> also contains YUI which is BSD licensed.
>>
>> Ok you have now pointed out that the BSD license is in fact included
>> in the source distribution in a file named
>> web.resources.yui\LICENSE.bsd.yahoo.txt, but that was not at all
>> obvious and i didn't find it when looking for the license.
>>
>> The traditional approach for ASF releases is to copy all the licenses
>> into the top-level LICENSE file so that they are very easy to see.
>> Some projects don't like that so have the third party licenses
>> somewhere else. Some people say if you use the somewhere else approach
>> then the top level LICENSE must at least have a link to them, i don't
>> know if that is strictly required perhaps if they are all collected
>> somewhere obvious like a top-level folder named licenses that might be
>> enough too. But just having all the license scattered about in the
>> distribution in no obvious place and with no high level doc pointing
>> out that they exist is not enough IMHO.
>>
>> There was some discussion about this in
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-31 (which i note is still
>> open!).
>>
>>   ...ant
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür
>> <m...@farewellutopia.com> wrote:
>> > Thank you for reviewing the release candidate
>> >
>> > I'm not sure what the issue with the source distribution is: the
>> > module web.resources.yui mentions the yahoo copyright in the notice
>> > file and the bsd license is included.
>> >
>> > I guess this should also be the case for the launchers and thus the
>> > binary distribution zip.
>> >
>> > That the name of the binary release doesn't match the one of the
>> > source release is intended. The source release is a distribution of
>> > many components, the binary release is a release of the launcher which
>> > contains most but not all the components.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Reto
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:00 AM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <r...@apache.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> Hi all,
>> >>>
>> >>> Clerezza 0.2 is ready for release.  This will be our first incubator
>> >>> release.
>> >>>
>> >>> We had a preliminary vote in the PPMC, which has been accepted, the +1
>> >>> votes include the one from IPMC member Tommaso Teofili.
>> >>>
>> >>> The PPMC vote result is here:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-clerezza-dev/201201.mbox/%3CCALvhUEXQVsKro6jRBY06%2B2fh6TGv5yBkAGd3Eoj6mqiQ%3DCe1hQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
>> >>>
>> >>> We need two more IPMC votes to pass.
>> >>>
>> >>> Please vote on releasing Clerezza parent and all the modules in the
>> >>> release profile.
>> >>>
>> >>> A zip with the source distribution and one with an executable binary
>> >>> distribution (jena tdb based launcher) are available with their
>> >>> signatures at:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://people.apache.org/~reto/clerezza-release-201201/
>> >>>
>> >>> In svn the release version is tagged parent-0.2-incubating.
>> >>>
>> >>> Keys:
>> >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/clerezza/trunk/KEYS
>> >>>
>> >>> The vote is open for 72 hours, or until we get the needed number of
>> >>> votes
>> >>> (3 +1).
>> >>>
>> >>>  [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Clerezza 0.2-incubating
>> >>>  [ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
>> >>>
>> >>> To learn more about Apache Clerezza visit:
>> >>> http://incubator.apache.org/clerezza/
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers,
>> >>> Reto
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately there are some licensing issues.
>> >>
>> >> The source distribution includes YUI which is BSD licensed so this
>> >> needs to be mentioned and the BSD license needs to be included in the
>> >> source distribution LICENSE file.
>> >>
>> >> There are similar issues with the binary distribution which includes
>> >> many third party artifacts with various licenses and none of those are
>> >> mentioned anywhere that i could find. Its a big release so I've not
>> >> checked the details, I think you need to do a legal audit of the
>> >> release artifacts to find whats there and what needs to be added to
>> >> the LICENSE and NOTICE files. Ask your mentors or here on general@ if
>> >> you're not sure how to do it.
>> >>
>> >> Otherwise the release all looks pretty good a couple of minor comments
>> >> are:
>> >> - the NOTICE file date has 2011 and that could be changed to 2012.
>> >> - the name of the binary distribution artifact doesn't match the name
>> >> of the source artifact or include the release version
>> >>
>> >>   ...ant
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