I'm all for dropping the war, assuming that we provide adequate documentation for deploying the jars onto popular web servers (tomcat, jetty, etc.)
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Ian Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The latest attempt to release Shindig 1.0 has probably failed as a result > of a disagreement over the validity of the DEPENDENCIES file in the war > archive. > > This file is auto generated and contains pointers to all the licenses for > the 3rd party jars bundled in the war. Some members of the Incubator PMC > assert that the licenses should be listed in NOTICE and LICENSE in the > META-INF of the war. I suspect that this view is unlikely to change, as it > has come up twice already and various PPMC members have pointed to > discussions on d...@maven and legal-discuss on the subject. > > So without resolution of this issue, the Vote to release Shindig 1.0 on > gene...@incubator has stalled. > > IMHO we have 3 options. > 1. Drop the war from the binary artifact. > 2. Try to state the for DEPENDENCIES on gene...@incubator > 3. Maintain a separate NOTICE, LICENSE and README for the war, manually, > listing all licenses of all jars contained within the war. (39 jars at the > last count) > > 3 will become an unpleasant burden to the release process. > > WDYT? > Ian > > > > >
