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To: "Maven Developers List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org If you open up the wrapper-delta-pack that the appassembler depends on, = doc/license.txt describes the license it was released under. It is not = GPL or LGPL as asserted in this thread. None of this discussion is really relevant for this list... except maybe = that pointing to a URL for a license in the POM is not a good idea. If = someone wants to take up that issue, I would recommend changing it to a = reference within the repository, so that we can ensure some list of = immutable licenses. - Brett On 13/06/2011, at 4:03 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > So, the lesson I take from this is that the appassembler would never > have been releasable at Apache, and that releasing it at codehaus > without getting the author (who happens to be in Japan) to provide an > unambiguous license was perhaps ill-advised. >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin > wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Mark Struberg = wrote: >>> just an idea: what about extending the maven-release-plugin to ask = for a license if the pom doesn't contain a section? >>=20 >> In principle, this would be a good feature to add to a verification >> tool like Rat. >>=20 >> In this case, JSW has a section but that license contains >> meta-licensing information (a way for a user to obtain a license, >> rather than a direct license) >>=20 >> Robert >>=20 >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@maven.apache.org >>=20 >>=20 >=20 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@maven.apache.org >=20 -- Brett Porter brett@apache.org http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@maven.apache.org