On Jun 14, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Norman Maurer wrote:
Hi guys,
here is the VOTE for release jSPF 0.9.7. Please cast your VOTE after
review:
http://people.apache.org/~norman/staging-repository/org/apache/james/jspf/apache-jspf/0.9.7/
I'm confused by a few things.
I'm really confused by the two LICENSE files and two NOTICE files.
Not being a lawyer I think I'd have to consult one before considering
using the product. I'm not sure how anyone could figure out which
file applies to the product.
My understanding of apache policy is that the legal files are supposed
to describe and apply to exactly what is in the artifact that contains
them. I didn't do a complete search but suspect from the language
that the larger LICENSE and NOTICE files also include information
about dependencies such as junit that are not actually redistributed.
The notice file also has some "thanks for the inspiration" notes that
don't seem to me appropriate for the NOTICE file. Again, its only my
impression of apache policy, but I think the NOTICE file is supposed
to be as short as possible and only include the standard apache notice
and anything legally required by external code that is actually
included in the artifact.
The BUILDING.txt and README.txt don't have apache license headers.
I'm really not sure if they are required to, but adding them removes
all questions from sticklers like me :-)
On a much less important subject, it looks like you have a maven build
but I don't see a maven repo structure in the staging area that
includes the actual jars. Is there a plan to deploy the jars to maven
central? I guess looking closer there's a private svn repo in stage
so deploying the jars is not a good idea since the dependencies must
not be in central. Since this is a somewhat unusual way to use maven
it might be helpful to explain it in the BUILDING file and note that
for this reason neither snapshots nor releases should be deployed to
public maven repos.
I think it might be a good idea to fix the legal files content and
make sure only one LICENSE and one NOTICE file are present. I'd make
this into more of a standard up to date maven project but that is a
matter of taste.
thanks
david jencks
[ ] +1 Please release it as it is
[ ] +0 Sorry no real idea about it
[ ] -1 No please not....
Thx,
Norman
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