[DISCUSS] LICENSE and NOTICE files in modules/tools/demos

[Ramkumar R <ra...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

Noticed that all the projects in modules, demos and tools folder has a
LICENSE and NOTICE file within,

except for three module projects as shown below, which does not include them

modules-contribution-resource   - no license and notice
modules-xsd                            - no license and notice
modules-xsd-xml                      - no license and notice

I will raise a JIRA to take care of this one.

One question in my mind is that, why we don't have these files for projects
in samples, itests and vtests?

I believe there should be some reason for the same, like to understand the
process here. Thanks.

-- 
Thanks & Regards,
Ramkumar Ramalingam

Re: [DISCUSS] LICENSE and NOTICE files in modules/tools/demos

[ant elder <an...@apache.org>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Ramkumar R <ra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have raised a JIRA TUSCANY-2676 to add the license files to the modules.
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:46 PM, ant elder <an...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thats right. Artifacts only need the legal files if they're being
>> distributed separately, for example as a jar in a maven repository. We don't
>> do that with the itests, vtest, samples, demos or tutorials so they don't
>> need the legal files. Those modules only ever get distributed as part of the
>> binary or source distribution which has its own legal files which covers
>> everything within the distribution.
>>
>>    ...ant
>>
>>
> Hi Ant,
>
> I understand the point here, as you said we don't need the legal files for
> itests, vtest, samples, demos or tutorials.
> Currently we have these legal files as part of projects in demos, can we
> consider removing them from there?
>
>
Yes, i think they can be removed.

   ...ant

Re: [DISCUSS] LICENSE and NOTICE files in modules/tools/demos

[Ramkumar R <ra...@gmail.com>]

I have raised a JIRA TUSCANY-2676 to add the license files to the modules.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:46 PM, ant elder <an...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thats right. Artifacts only need the legal files if they're being
> distributed separately, for example as a jar in a maven repository. We don't
> do that with the itests, vtest, samples, demos or tutorials so they don't
> need the legal files. Those modules only ever get distributed as part of the
> binary or source distribution which has its own legal files which covers
> everything within the distribution.
>
>    ...ant
>
>
Hi Ant,

I understand the point here, as you said we don't need the legal files for
itests, vtest, samples, demos or tutorials.
Currently we have these legal files as part of projects in demos, can we
consider removing them from there?

-- 
Thanks & Regards,
Ramkumar Ramalingam

Re: [DISCUSS] LICENSE and NOTICE files in modules/tools/demos

[ant elder <an...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Luciano Resende <lu...@gmail.com>wrote:

<snip>


> > One question in my mind is that, why we don't have these files for
> projects
> > in samples, itests and vtests?
> >
> > I believe there should be some reason for the same, like to understand
> the
> > process here. Thanks.
> >
>
>
> There was a discussion in the past where the community decided that
> was not necessary to have license/notices on these files, I believe
> because we don't release the jars for any of this. I was trying to
> find past discussion on this, but couldn't.
>
>
Thats right. Artifacts only need the legal files if they're being
distributed separately, for example as a jar in a maven repository. We don't
do that with the itests, vtest, samples, demos or tutorials so they don't
need the legal files. Those modules only ever get distributed as part of the
binary or source distribution which has its own legal files which covers
everything within the distribution.

   ...ant

Re: [DISCUSS] LICENSE and NOTICE files in modules/tools/demos

[Luciano Resende <lu...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Ramkumar R <ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Noticed that all the projects in modules, demos and tools folder has a
> LICENSE and NOTICE file within,
>
> except for three module projects as shown below, which does not include them
>
> modules-contribution-resource   - no license and notice
> modules-xsd                            - no license and notice
> modules-xsd-xml                      - no license and notice
>
> I will raise a JIRA to take care of this one.
>

Yes, these modules should have license and notice

> One question in my mind is that, why we don't have these files for projects
> in samples, itests and vtests?
>
> I believe there should be some reason for the same, like to understand the
> process here. Thanks.
>


There was a discussion in the past where the community decided that
was not necessary to have license/notices on these files, I believe
because we don't release the jars for any of this. I was trying to
find past discussion on this, but couldn't.

> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ramkumar Ramalingam
>



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http://people.apache.org/~lresende
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