Add an "alternative" apache-jar-resource-bundle
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                 Key: MRRESOURCES-31
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRRESOURCES-31
             Project: Maven 2.x Remote Resources Plugin
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Niall Pemberton


I propose adding an "alternative" apache-jar-resource-bundle (perhaps called 
"apache-jar-resource-bundle-alt"?) which is a copy of the existing 
apache-jar-resource-bundle[1] except that the 

   LICENSE.vm is renamed to LICENSE.txt.vm
   NOTICE.vm is renamed to NOTICE.txt.vm

This will create files named LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt rather than LICENSE and 
NOTICE.

The ASF policy[2] on the naming of these files says:
 -  Can the LICENSE and NOTICE files be called LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt?
 - This is permitted. However the preference is that the files be called 
LICENSE and NOTICE.

Many projects use ".txt" extensions as its more friendly to windows users and 
since the policy says its permitted then IMO it would be good to support 
projects which chose to use that naming convention with a standard resource 
bundle.

This has come out of a discussion at Apache Commons [3] and a bundle such as 
this would allow that project (with 34 diffferent components, each with a copy 
of NOTICE.txt and LICENSE.txt) to be able to easily migrate to using the 
remote-resources-plugin with minimal effort. Currently, configuring the 
remote-resources-plugin in Commons's parent pom causes duplicate Notice and 
License files (i.e. versions with and without the .txt extension).

Apologies if this is filed in the wrong place - but theres no issue tracking 
link in the pom for apache-jar-resource-bundle to indicate where issues should 
be filed.

[1] 
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/resources/trunk/apache-jar-resource-bundle/
[2] http://apache.org/dev/apply-license.html#license-file-name
[3] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMMONSSITE-21



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