On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martijn Dashorst wrote: > > On 3/27/08, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > This release is tagged at: > >> > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cxf/tags/cxf-2.0.5-incubator/ > >> > >> -1: there should be NOTICE and LICENSE files at the top level in SVN. > >> > > According to my knowledge there is no policy that this has to be so. > > The notice and license file MUST be in the src tar ball, but there is > > no policy requiring them to be in SVN. > > > > The policy (or rather faq, [1]) states that: > > > > "In particular, every artifact distributed must contain appropriate > > LICENSE and NOTICE files." > > These SHOULD be present, in any instance it should be possible to discover > the providence of a file from an arbitrary svn checkout/export; we just > finished a long thread along these lines, justifying why this is so.
I assume you mean the following thread: http://apache.markmail.org/message/jangmpbssvvd73az Although from memory I don't remember it being conclusive. Niall > You cannot say an svn checkout is not licensed, ergo license and notice > should be present, at least at some higher level of the tree covering > everything in that node. > > > >> -1: SVN and the source archive don't agree; there are files and > >> directories in each that are not in the other. > > > > > To the best of my knowledge an svn tag is not an artifact which is > > distributed. > > That's correct, there may be generated files in a tarball or files excluded > in packaging a tarball. That said; there should be either script or process > documentation on how one becomes the other, because voters should and will > compare what the RM says they are releasing to what is in SVN. > > Bill > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
