[jira] Closed: (MJAR-10) dealing with licenses

["Jason van Zyl (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAR-10?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jason van Zyl closed MJAR-10.
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    Resolution: Fixed

This is now dealt with by the remote resources plugin.

> dealing with licenses
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: MJAR-10
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAR-10
>             Project: Maven 2.x Jar Plugin
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Jorg Heymans
>            Priority: Minor
>
> maven could offer a configurable way to include project licenses in the jar, briefly discussed on IRC today 
> 	jorg	does m2 have anything built-in to deal with library licenses ? just wondering ...
> 	kenney	<license> tag in the pom is all I think
> 	jorg	ah yep, i knew I saw something about it somewhere, tnx kenney
> 	kenney	and just distribute poms for non-freely-distributable jars (like the sun ones), stating where you can download/purchase them
> 	jorg	mmm "Typically the licenses listed for the project are that of the project itself, and not of dependencies."
> 	jorg	ok so unless all our dependencies are good maven citizens this won't really work ...
> 	jorg	no prob, we'll just include them ourselves then
> 	kenney	do you have to?
> 	kenney	if people distribute a jar/pom without a license, it's their fault
> 	jorg	well we (cocoon) have always done so
> 	jorg	that's true though , it's up to them to include them
> 	trygvis	I think people are a bit slack when it comes to adding that information
> 	jorg	definitely
> 	kenney	what about the bundle upload system?
> 	jorg	that's why i was hoping for maven to be able enforce something
> 	trygvis	we should probably start to enumerate the various licenses and give them IDs instead
> 	kenney	bundles have to have a LICENSE file.. where does that go?
> 	trygvis	not sure, ask carlos
> 	kenney	yeah or maybe extend the license tag to name the license (ASL-2.0) and the online-url, or alternatively list the license content itself.. or just add a bla-X-LICENSE.txt on ibiblio per project
> 	jorg	something like that yeah, and perhaps offering a configurable way of having the license file included in the jar ?
> 	jorg	or is that a hairy legal thing maven shouldn't get into ?
> 	trygvis	kenney: the name there (ASL-2.0) would be the id
> 	trygvis	jorg: good idea
> 	jorg	it would certainly advocate , albeit rather enforced, correct usage of libraries

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