[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Build System] - Re: License linking in poms

[adrian@jboss.org]

"pgier" wrote : Is it ok to put this URL to the lgpl in our poms?
  | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt
  | 
  | Instead of the copy we currently use
  | http://repository.jboss.org/licenses/lgpl.txt
  | 
  | The maven convention is to point to the site of the license organization.  If it's not ok, should we rename the file in our repository lgpl-2.1.txt so that it's not confused with 3.0.
  | 

That's not a question for the forums, its a question for the lawyers. ;-)

IANAL but, the relevant part is here:
anonymous wrote : 
  | You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Library's
  | complete source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that
  | ... and distribute a copy of this License along with the
  | Library.
  | 

So we should have our own copy of the license in the same place
as where the library is distributed.

Maven conventions are just that (design by exception).
The conventions don't work in all circumstances. :-)

Just copy it to lgpl-2.1. Don't rename it, otherwise you'll invalidate all the previous links.

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