On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:08 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 02/04/2008, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:59 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >  > On 02/04/2008, Kevan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >  >  >  On Apr 2, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Dan Diephouse wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  > <snip>
>  >
>  >
>  >  >  > > I misspoke. Here's what I meant to ask:
>  >  >  > >
>  >  >  > > Do we need to 1) include all the licenses for all our dependencies 
> in a
>  >  >  > single LICENSE file or can we 2) have our top LICENSE file which is 
> ASL and
>  >  >  > then have individual LICENSE files for each library in the lib/ 
> directory.
>  >  >  > >
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  I'm not aware of a requirement for having only 1 LICENSE file. In 
> fact, the
>  >  >  > document says you don't have to append 3rd-party licenses to the 
> LICENSE
>  >  >  > file. It does say you should put a pointer to the license files. So, 
> IMO, 2)
>  >  >  > is fine. Other Apache projects do this also.
>  >  >
>  >  >  2) is fine so long as the main LICENSE jar tells users where to find
>  >  >  the other license - i.e. it  has pointers to the other licenses.
>  >
>  >
>  > AIUI this is not policy
>  >
>
>  My understanding differs, so I think this needs to be resolved and
>  formally documented.

where did you find the rule you based your understanding of policy on?

- robert

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