[EDGENT-418] Think LICENSE/NOTICE in binary release .jar & .war are wrong

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Apache Edgent 1.2.0
• Component/s: Miscellaneous
• Assignee: Dale LaBossiere
• Reporter: Dale LaBossiere
• Created: 30/May/17 15:23
• Updated: 02/Jan/18 18:53
• Resolved: 02/Jan/18 18:21

Description

An email thread on LICENSE/NOTICE in a .war on general@incubator got me thinking/checking re Edgent.

The Edgent binary release bundle (.tgz) has a custom/appropriate LICENSE and NOTICE file.

The Edgent binary release .jar/.war artifacts only have pretty much stock LICENSE & NOTICE files in them. That seems incorrect. (it's not clear to me if we can just use the same binary-bundle's LICENSE/NOTICE in each .jar/.war or if each one has to have customization for that particular artifact. I hope it's the former (common ones for all binary artifacts).

Today these artifacts are only released as part of the binary-bundle so at least it has the correct info at the top level. But in the hopefully near future we will also be publishing on maven-central and then it seems even more important to get .jar/.war contents correct.