On 18/08/2009, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Craig L Russell wrote: > > > > Hi Ant, > > > > I didn't intend to make up stuff on the fly, especially policy. > > > > After having been through the fine points of LICENSE vs. NOTICE so many > times, I thought the consensus was to put *all* licenses into the top level > LICENSE file. But having just scoured the official public pages promulgating > policy, I can't find it. > > > > Let's continue the discussion. > > > > I still believe that it's bad form to put licenses in several places in > distributions because users might not find them and thereby not know what > they're getting. > > > > > > You may consider it bad form, but until it is actually documented as > incubator or ASF policy I wouldn't consider it to be enough to block a > release. Especially since I am quite sure there will be a debate about > whether it must be one way or the other.
Surely we should be making things easy for the end-users of the software? AIUI ASF policy is for there to be "no surprises". Having a single starting point - the LICENSE and NOTICE files in the top-level directory - seems to me to be the way to do this. It's really unfair to expect end-users to trawl around the directory structure looking for license files, whose names are non-standard. It's really not very much to ask; and it only has to be done once for each 3rd party library. Yes it's tedious to get things set up initially, but the benefit of such standardisation is to make it much easier for the end-user, which is surely what we should be aiming for. > Ralph > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: > general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
