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Subject:    detached license information [WAS Re: [VOTE] Apache CXF 2.0-M1 RAT Release]
From:       "robert burrell donkin" <robertburrelldonkin () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-11-24 12:54:48
Message-ID: f470f68e0611240454g20eb122etf728cc51f376ce3c () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 11/24/06, Bozhong Lin <blin@iona.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> robert burrell donkin wrote:
> > 
> > On 11/22/06, Dan Diephouse <dan@envoisolutions.com> wrote:
> > > The Apache CXF team has cut a candidate release
> > 
> > 
> > bit unfortunate about the licensing foobar - looked a good release :-/
> > 
> > here are the notes i made before i found the license issue just FYI
> > for feedback
> > 
> > -- possible minor issues --
> > 
> > RAT:
> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cxf/tags/2.0-incubator-M1/common/schemas/src/main/resources/schemas/wsdl/xml.xsd
> >  is missing a license header. doesn't look generated and looks complex
> > enough for copyright.
> > 
> 
> For this one, I am not sure if we can add Apache License Header. The
> original document is available here http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd and
> it does not include any license header too.

this sounds fine

thinking about adding function to allow RAT to read external file
containing license information (sort of like a detached signature).
prefer to suppose forms of meta-data (RDF, microformt whatnot) and
have RAT read them rather than a RAT specific configuration file.

opinions?

suggestions about formats?

anyone know about any existing standards?

- robert

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