On 18/05/2010 18:25, Justin Edelson wrote:
I thought it was well-established that you should include the license inside binary and source artifacts. What exactly is your reason for thinking this isn't a good idea? Saying that it isn't "obvious" doesn't really count IMHO as this is highly subjective.
I'm not sure if that's well-established. There are a number of artifacts in the central repository that clearly don't, so that's subjective too. You're right, the only reason I think it's better outside the jar itself is to make it a bit more visible. Whether the licence is within the jar's META-INF or next to the jar is a minute detail indeed. Having it within the jar would make it distributed with the jar of course (which is a good thing).
Clarification of the documentation and/or mechanisms on how to redistribute the licences properly with the software is what I'm suggesting. In terms of core Maven mechanism, that could consist of an improvement with respect to the convention over configuration principle that Maven follows.
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