[UIMA-860] Add source-style LICENSE and NOTICE files at "root"s of UIMA

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3S
• Component/s: Build, Packaging and Test
• Assignee: Thilo Goetz
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 09/Mar/08 13:58
• Updated: 05/Aug/09 13:22
• Resolved: 05/Aug/09 13:22

Description

The legal wiki seems to be converging to a concensus around having LICENSE and NOTICE files at the "root" of projects in SVN (underneath "trunk"). There was a lot of discussion about this from our previous release attempt.

There are multiple kinds of LICENSE and NOTICE files - those for our "source" distributions (which are pretty simple), and those for our binary ones (which, because these sometimes include other projects, have more complex versions - see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/uima/sandbox/trunk/uima-as/uima-as-distr/src/main/readme for instance).

To conform to this emerging Apache convention, put the "source" style of licenses beneath the "trunk" directory in our SVN (we have at least 2 of these - one for the main branch, and one for the sandbox.) Also put at top level (the level containing the projects) in uima-as - there is a "collection" directory for all the uima-as projects.