Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-08-02 Thread Matthieu Riou
On 8/2/07, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > AIUI including full license text in the LICENSE file is preferable but > isn't absolutely necessary. giving a pointer to the license should be > ok. > > what would be very useful to me (and other folks who need to check the > releas

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 8/1/07, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/31/07, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ("licenses for each dependency library are > > > reproduced in the lib directory along with the library"). > > > > > > That's not viable. As Niclas suggested, the target of all this is la

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 7/31/07, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the idea of the license maven artifact. It takes quite some > effort in determining the actual license of any dependency (I've been > on a license hunt myself several times). Having the license published > in the repository next to th

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-08-01 Thread Matthieu Riou
On 8/1/07, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is about sources, not binaries, right? If you don't include > > the source but only the binary (.jar), then the situation might > > be different. > > It's my understanding that the same applies to both source and binary. But > you're co

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-08-01 Thread Martin Cooper
On 8/1/07, Roland Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: > > > > http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html#new > > > > "you should append their license(s) to the LICENSE file at the top of > the > > distribution, or at least put a pointer in the LICENSE file to the > > third-party license"

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-08-01 Thread Roland Weber
> From: > > http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html#new > > "you should append their license(s) to the LICENSE file at the top of the > distribution, or at least put a pointer in the LICENSE file to the > third-party license" You didn't quote the beginning of the paragraph: > If the distrib

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-08-01 Thread Matthieu Riou
On 7/31/07, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Actually I was wondering about this recommendation of having all (non > > ASL) > > license files for dependencies in a *single* LICENSE file. It seems to > > me > > that it's a maintenance nightmare when you have a lot of dependencies

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-07-31 Thread Martin Cooper
On 7/31/07, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/31/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > +1 from me. > > > > Some of the same comments on the previous M7a release still apply, eg, > its > > preferred to have a separate DISCLAIMER file, having all licenses in a > > single LI

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-07-31 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Matthieu, On Jul 31, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Matthieu Riou wrote: I'd rather have all the specific licenses each in there file reproduced side by side with the library the license is applied on (with similar namings, i.e. dom4j-1.3.LICENSE) and a simple pointer in the main LICENSE file ("licenses

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-07-31 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 00:26, Matthieu Riou wrote: > I've seen the documentation as well but couldn't find the justification > behind it. I think it relates to Legal Folks like single files, which can be read as a Word Document once(!) and then poked around inside. Only developers are fond

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-07-31 Thread Matthieu Riou
On 7/31/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/31/07, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/31/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > +1 from me. > > > > > > Some of the same comments on the previous M7a release still apply, eg, > > > its > > > preferred

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-07-31 Thread Martijn Dashorst
I like the idea of the license maven artifact. It takes quite some effort in determining the actual license of any dependency (I've been on a license hunt myself several times). Having the license published in the repository next to the (jar) artifact (and included in the artifacts META-INF folder)

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-07-31 Thread ant elder
On 7/31/07, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/31/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > +1 from me. > > > > Some of the same comments on the previous M7a release still apply, eg, > > its > > preferred to have a separate DISCLAIMER file, having all licenses in a > > single

Re: All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-07-31 Thread Guillaume Nodet
I must agree about the nightmare. Including separate files is much easier and could be automated by maven or any other build tool much more easily... On 7/31/07, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/31/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > +1 from me. > > > > Some of the same

All licenses in a single file [WAS: Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release]

2007-07-31 Thread Matthieu Riou
On 7/31/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1 from me. > > Some of the same comments on the previous M7a release still apply, eg, its > preferred to have a separate DISCLAIMER file, having all licenses in a > single LICENSE file, and have src and binary distro's unpack into > different >

Re: [VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release

2007-07-31 Thread ant elder
+1 from me. Some of the same comments on the previous M7a release still apply, eg, its preferred to have a separate DISCLAIMER file, having all licenses in a single LICENSE file, and have src and binary distro's unpack into different folders. ...ant On 7/30/07, Graham Turrell (gmail) <[EMAIL

[VOTE] Publish the Woden M7b release

2007-07-30 Thread Graham Turrell (gmail)
The Woden incubator project is developing a WSDL 2.0 processor in conjunction with efforts of the W3C to deliver the new WSDL 2.0 specification. The Woden project team would like to ask the Incubator PMC for approval to publish the Woden Milestone 7b release to support the upcoming Apache WS Axis2