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/legal or /lib?
It has been pointed out that we need to be distributing licenses along
with the .jar files we have as dependencies. My question is should we
put those license files in /lib alongside the .jar they reference, or
should we centralize the license files into a seperate directory, say
/legal with easily understandable names (third-party.jar.license.txt)?
I see merits to both, but I'm liking the /legal option because it seems
cleaner. I don't really like the idea of non-library files being in /lib.
I think we need to choose a standard location and encourage anyone who
has added dependencies to attach the appropriate license files. This
should probably happen before the 10th.
-James
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Re: /legal or /lib?
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004, James Mason <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> Do we need to include license files for .jars that are licensed with
> the old (1.0/1.1) Apache license?
Yes, and a separate one for each of them (since the 1.1 license
contains the project's name).
Stefan
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Re: /legal or /lib?
Posted by James Mason <ma...@apache.org>.
Oliver Zeigermann wrote:
> My understanding is the licenses should be in the lib directory as
> anyone using CVS and browsing through the lib dir shall immediately be
> pointed to the fact that the lib is not from Apache. This would not be
> possible with a legal dir.
Ok. /lib is fine.
>
> Other than that: are there still missing license / notice files?
Do we need to include license files for .jars that are licensed with the
old (1.0/1.1) Apache license?
-James
>
> Oliver
>
> James Mason wrote:
>
>> It has been pointed out that we need to be distributing licenses along
>> with the .jar files we have as dependencies. My question is should we
>> put those license files in /lib alongside the .jar they reference, or
>> should we centralize the license files into a seperate directory, say
>> /legal with easily understandable names (third-party.jar.license.txt)?
>>
>> I see merits to both, but I'm liking the /legal option because it
>> seems cleaner. I don't really like the idea of non-library files being
>> in /lib.
>>
>> I think we need to choose a standard location and encourage anyone who
>> has added dependencies to attach the appropriate license files. This
>> should probably happen before the 10th.
>>
>> -James
>>
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Re: /legal or /lib?
Posted by Oliver Zeigermann <ol...@zeigermann.de>.
My understanding is the licenses should be in the lib directory as
anyone using CVS and browsing through the lib dir shall immediately be
pointed to the fact that the lib is not from Apache. This would not be
possible with a legal dir.
Other than that: are there still missing license / notice files?
Oliver
James Mason wrote:
> It has been pointed out that we need to be distributing licenses along
> with the .jar files we have as dependencies. My question is should we
> put those license files in /lib alongside the .jar they reference, or
> should we centralize the license files into a seperate directory, say
> /legal with easily understandable names (third-party.jar.license.txt)?
>
> I see merits to both, but I'm liking the /legal option because it seems
> cleaner. I don't really like the idea of non-library files being in /lib.
>
> I think we need to choose a standard location and encourage anyone who
> has added dependencies to attach the appropriate license files. This
> should probably happen before the 10th.
>
> -James
>
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