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Subject: Re: Licenses files, Notice files and LUCENE-2952
From: Grant Ingersoll <gsingers@apache.org>
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:06:28 -0400
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I will probably submit a patch to RAT at some point for this, but wanted =
to prove it out here first as we have an immediate need and I don't want =
to wait for a RAT release  nor do I have the time to learn the RAT code =
at this point.  Others are welcome to port it.

-Grant

On Mar 17, 2011, at 1:58 AM, Mark Miller wrote:

> We do use Apache RAT and it does not do these kinds of license checks.
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> On Mar 16, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
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>> Have you guys thought about using Apache RAT [1]?
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>> It's not perfect but it implements a lot of license checks, and as =
far as I know, integrates nicely into Ant and Maven.
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>> Cheers,
>> Chris
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>> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/rat/
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>> On Mar 16, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Robert Muir wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Grant Ingersoll =
<gsingers@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> As Robert can no doubt attest, we often scramble to make sure i's =
are dotted and t's are crossed when it comes to filling out LICENSE.txt =
and NOTICE.txt right before releases, thereby burdening the RM with way =
too much work in validating what dependency has which license.  Thus, =
we've been working to resolve this.
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>>>> In prep for the landing of LUCENE-2952 and to make life easier on =
release managers going forward, we've adopted the following conventions =
for dealing with licenses:
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>>>> 1. For every dependency (i.e. jar file), there needs to be a =
corresponding file-LICENSE-<LICENSE_TYPE>.txt file, as in: foo-2.3.1.jar =
has the corresponding foo-LICENSE-BSD.txt file (assuming foo is BSD =
licensed) in the same directory as the jar file.
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>>>> 2.  _IF_ the license requires a NOTICE entry, then there must be a =
file of the name file-NOTICE.txt, as in foo-NOTICE.txt.
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>>>> Failing to meet either one will break the build once L-2952 is =
committed (which should be soon for trunk and will be backported to =
3.2).
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>>>> Consider yourself notified.
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>>> +1
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>>> I think we can all agree, we want our licensing to be "rock-solid" =
and
>>> we should strive to raise the standards here for our project. Its
>>> actually more important than if our code even compiles.
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>>> Automated checks go a long way, thank you Grant for working on this,
>>> because we have a lot of third-party dependencies and its difficult =
to
>>> verify that everything is in proper order.
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>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
>> Senior Computer Scientist
>> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
>> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
>> Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
>> WWW:   http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
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>> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
>> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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> - Mark Miller
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