On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:29 -0800, Carlos Sanchez wrote: > you could check the parent pom. In this case not even the parent has license. > > Anything that should be done in the future to clarify the legal aspects? >
Ideally, I think every pom should have a license field that mentions the license. In many cases, it is impossible to tell where a pom came from (could be someone from the upstream side (project license), maybe some from maven (APL), or maybe another contributor (license unknown)).. Thanks, Deepak > On 2/14/07, Deepak Bhole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:21 -0800, Carlos Sanchez wrote: > > > The license should be inside the pom <licenses> section, or in the > > > maven1 repo in the .license files > > > > > > > Very few of the poms I am seeing have licenses. For example, even the > > critical plexus ones don't have one: > > > > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-archiver/1.0-alpha-8/plexus-archiver-1.0-alpha-8.pom > > > > In many cases, it it hard to tell who wrote the file. Like the above > > file for instance, I don't know if it was written by the plexus guys (in > > which case that license applies), or if someone from maven side wrote it > > (APL in that case)... > > > > Deepak > > > > > > > On 2/13/07, Deepak Bhole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > What license are the pom files in the maven2 repository > > > > (repo1.maven.org/maven2) under? We need to know if we are allowed to > > > > redistribute those poms with Fedora. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Deepak > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
