Legal files in org.apache.gernimo.bundles jars

[Rick McGuire <ri...@gmail.com>]

I've been working on moving the org.apache.geronimo.bundles components 
out of the server tree into its own top-level project so these bundles 
can be released separately.  The working copy can be found here:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/bundles/trunk

One issue is how the legal files need to be handled.  Since these 
bundles contain code developed under other licenses, that information 
needs to be noted in these jars.  In addition, the release plugin is 
gives an error on these components because the source artifact does not 
contain legal files.

I've taken a first pass at fixing this for two of the components, 
asm-3.1 and jaxb-impl.  Here are the steps I've taken:

1)  Added a NOTICE and LICENSE file to root of the subproject.  This 
solved the problem of release plugin error.
2)  Added src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/LICENSE.vm and NOTICE.vm 
files to the subproject.  These files get appended to the standard 
apache license files and will contain the LICENSE and NOTICE information 
for the source jar.  The NOTICE and LICENSE files used in the assembly 
boilerplate is used as the source of the information when possible.  All 
jars will have a LICENSE.vm file, but not all need to have a NOTICE.vm.  
The asm-3.1 does not require the NOTICE, jaxb-impl does (which I why I 
chose these for the initial work).

I believe this will satisfy our requirements for redistributing these 
jars, but I'd like some feedback on whether these two are correct before 
I make the changes to all of the subproject.

Rick

Re: Legal files in org.apache.gernimo.bundles jars

[Kevan Miller <ke...@gmail.com>]

On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Rick McGuire wrote:

> I've been working on moving the org.apache.geronimo.bundles components out of the server tree into its own top-level project so these bundles can be released separately.  The working copy can be found here:
> 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/bundles/trunk
> 
> One issue is how the legal files need to be handled.  Since these bundles contain code developed under other licenses, that information needs to be noted in these jars.  In addition, the release plugin is gives an error on these components because the source artifact does not contain legal files.
> 
> I've taken a first pass at fixing this for two of the components, asm-3.1 and jaxb-impl.  Here are the steps I've taken:
> 
> 1)  Added a NOTICE and LICENSE file to root of the subproject.  This solved the problem of release plugin error.
> 2)  Added src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/LICENSE.vm and NOTICE.vm files to the subproject.  These files get appended to the standard apache license files and will contain the LICENSE and NOTICE information for the source jar.  The NOTICE and LICENSE files used in the assembly boilerplate is used as the source of the information when possible.  All jars will have a LICENSE.vm file, but not all need to have a NOTICE.vm.  The asm-3.1 does not require the NOTICE, jaxb-impl does (which I why I chose these for the initial work).
> 
> I believe this will satisfy our requirements for redistributing these jars, but I'd like some feedback on whether these two are correct before I make the changes to all of the subproject.

I haven't looked at the specific test cases, but that sounds like the right approach. Thanks for doing this Rick.

--kevan

Re: Legal files in org.apache.gernimo.bundles jars

[Jarek Gawor <jg...@gmail.com>]

Rick,

The list of bundles can be trimmed down. I don't we need asm*, log4j,
openwebbeans*, ldapsdk. Also, we don't need to release the axis bundle
at this point (there might be more in the same situation). Hopefully,
this should simply things a bit.

Jarek

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Rick McGuire <ri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been working on moving the org.apache.geronimo.bundles components out
> of the server tree into its own top-level project so these bundles can be
> released separately.  The working copy can be found here:
>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/bundles/trunk
>
> One issue is how the legal files need to be handled.  Since these bundles
> contain code developed under other licenses, that information needs to be
> noted in these jars.  In addition, the release plugin is gives an error on
> these components because the source artifact does not contain legal files.
>
> I've taken a first pass at fixing this for two of the components, asm-3.1
> and jaxb-impl.  Here are the steps I've taken:
>
> 1)  Added a NOTICE and LICENSE file to root of the subproject.  This solved
> the problem of release plugin error.
> 2)  Added src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/LICENSE.vm and NOTICE.vm
> files to the subproject.  These files get appended to the standard apache
> license files and will contain the LICENSE and NOTICE information for the
> source jar.  The NOTICE and LICENSE files used in the assembly boilerplate
> is used as the source of the information when possible.  All jars will have
> a LICENSE.vm file, but not all need to have a NOTICE.vm.  The asm-3.1 does
> not require the NOTICE, jaxb-impl does (which I why I chose these for the
> initial work).
>
> I believe this will satisfy our requirements for redistributing these jars,
> but I'd like some feedback on whether these two are correct before I make
> the changes to all of the subproject.
>
> Rick
>