I suspect this has gone around in some incarnations, but I wanted to bring the topic to the front.
One of the main problems solved in Gradle was environment consistency through "wrapper scripts". Wrappers lock the version of the tool and incidental dependencies in order to stabilize the build. This approach was backported to Maven, and the more popular wrapper seems to be by Takari. As binaries are not allowed in source repos, the maven wrapper introduces a small java source file which bootstraps the tool. This has Apache license headers on it. Many apache projects use this, but I'm not going to mention them specifically as I don't want to cause them work. As a part of Zipkin's first attempt to vote a release on the general list, Justin lightly dinged the maven wrapper file, asking for it to be in the NOTICE box. While this is possibly a reasonably ask, it is ironic as its presence was to avoid another ding (jar inclusion). https://github.com/takari/maven-wrapper/blob/master/.mvn/wrapper/MavenWrapperDownloader.java While we can add some text like "the maven wrapper is also licensed to apache", I'm concerned about cruft in the NOTICE. It feels we are just adding things to it and as an end user, I'm not sure how this would add clarity. Even if it did, I'm concerned that we are jumping to a enforcement remediation when no-one seems to be doing it at all. I would like to feel things like this are thought through, that multiple people agree to enforce something even if it can reasonably be thought as required. It feels like this has either not been discussed or not applied.. possibly some just sacrifice users by excluding the wrapper, maybe only to avoid having to add cruft to their NOTICE files.. who knows. TL;DR; is can people please discuss this and chime in? I would feel better about the incubator process if not just code was a community process, but also enforcement policies. If more than one person says.. yeah you totally should blurb this.. and those people themselves use the wrapper and are willing to update their own NOTICE files.. the incubator would feel like a more fair place than it feels today. Best, -Adrian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
