[CXF-7108] NOTICE file in Distribution is too broad

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: Invalid
• Component/s: Build system
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: John D. Ament
• Created: 24/Oct/16 12:37
• Updated: 31/Mar/17 19:37
• Resolved: 23/Mar/17 14:03

Description

The NOTICE file that gets included in the distribution is too broad, or at least doesn't make it clear that this is only for the full distribution: https://github.com/apache/cxf/blob/master/distribution/src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/NOTICE

In my case, using CXF I bring in a subset of your JARs

-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff   172863 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-wsdl-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff   680540 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-ws-security-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff   213517 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-ws-policy-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff    75855 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-ws-addr-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff    40917 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-security-saml-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff    32110 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-security-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff   101548 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-frontend-simple-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff   341830 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff   103823 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-databinding-jaxb-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff    37934 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-bindings-xml-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff   178021 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-bindings-soap-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff  1354879 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-core-3.1.7.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 spartan  staff   344190 Oct 17 15:24 cxf-rt-transports-http-3.1.7.jar

However, external interpretation is that your NOTICE file requires all of this extra content - when not all of it applies in this case.