[jira] Commented: (FOR-855) verify the license situation prior to each release

["Ross Gardler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-855?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12472463 ] 

Ross Gardler commented on FOR-855:
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With the move to Ivy we will no longer have jar files in the lib directory, they will instead be in tools/ivy.repository/[PROJECTNAME]/jars

As a result we will no longer need to name license files *.license.txt as they can be placed within the projectname directory.

I'm not sure how this affects the related issue FOR-857

I will be performing Part A as I work our dependencies and add them to our ivy repository. I'll post any issues requiring more oversight against this issue.

> verify the license situation prior to each release
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FOR-855
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-855
>             Project: Forrest
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Project administration
>            Reporter: David Crossley
>         Assigned To: David Crossley
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 0.8-dev
>
>
> This should be continually happening anyway, but immediately prior to each release we need to verify that our license situation is in order. This issue should not ever be closed, rather just move the "Fix for Version" on to the next release.
> Here are some of the tasks:
> A) Ensure that all supporting libraries have a corresponding license. Basically every jar file or other external package needs to have a *.license.txt file. Ensure that any license conditions are met, e.g. for some we must add an entry to NOTICE.txt, while for some others we must not. Remember to abide by the ASF guidelines (e.g. nothing more restrictive than the Apache License).
> B) Scan the whole trunk repository to add missing ASF license headers to source files and to ensure that the ASF license headers have not been accidently added to external files. See etc/relicense.txt

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