On 20/05/13 21:19, Mark Thomas wrote:
On 20/05/2013 18:32, Brian Burch wrote:
On 20/05/13 12:16, Mark Thomas wrote:
These files appear to be auto-generated based on input you have
provided. The only content I'm concerned about are the comments. Are
they all yours? If so, I'll just remove the NetBeans notice. If not,
we'll need to remove any comments that aren't yours and the notice.
I cut'n'pasted the NOTICE into each of the files, then wrapped them in
the appropriate delimiters to render them as xml or Properties comments
as appropriate.
You are correct that the skeletons of the two xml files were
auto-generated based on my input, but they currently contain my attempt
at a NetBeans attribution for the following reasons:
** project.xml is my adaptation of the default file created by NetBeans
for a Free Form project that does not already have one. The default
auto-generated file does NOT contain a NetBeans copyright notice, but it
does reference netbeans schemas and is, in my naive opinion, implicitly
copyrighted.
NetBeans does not have any copyright in that project.xml.
Any comments in the XSDs are copyrightable. If you strip out all the
comments from the XSD what is left is not copyrightable. Copyright in
any document that uses the XSD rests with the person that wrote the
document (you).
** nb-project.xml was created by me from scratch, but based on my
examination of the xml files NetBeans auto-generates to support a
project which needs to be built under a different jdk to the one
netbeans is running under (aka the default platform). I felt I had used
sufficient look-and-feel in my file that it would be honest to
acknowledge the work done by the NetBeans developers on the originals.
The look and feel is driven as much by the requirements of having to
conform to the XSD. For the same reasons as above, the only copyright in
that file is yours.
The notices, while well meaning, are a) unnecessary and b) likely to
cause confusion for end users about how they are licensed.
I'll remove the notices you added.
Thanks for explaining, Mark. Thanks also for taking the time to make the
changes.
Thanks also to Konstantin for working through the content and
standardising the terminology and filenames. I'll be more careful next time.
With respect to the three XSDs referenced in my project.xml, these urls
all return 404 Not Found status. (I forget how many years ago I first
discovered this).
While researching some of the problems I had developing a design for
tomcat that actually worked, I found other people who had similar
problems with their own Free Form projects. I never got to the bottom of
it, but I formed the distinct impression that NetBeans has its own
internal xml parser for these files, and it doesn't always work the way
one might expect. Anyone looking closely at my initial version who
wonders why something hasn't been done more elegantly should keep this
in mind.
Brian
Mark
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