[jdom-interest] License File

Jason Hunter jhunter at servlets.com
Fri Jul 25 14:58:04 PDT 2003


That's what we do with other people's JARs, as you see in lib.

-jh-

John Jefferson wrote:

> Hi Jason,
> 
> Fair enough, in the case where I am distributing your
> binary unmodified I should then extract the license
> file from that binary and put it in the same directory
> as the binary?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> JJ
> 
> --- Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com> wrote:
> 
>>I don't see that as sufficient.  A JAR is not
>>generally expanded in its 
>>normal use, thus the file remains hidden when it
>>should be quite obvious.
>>
>>-jh-
>>
>>John Jefferson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Jason
>>>
>>>If I am distributing the source compiled into a
>>
>>jar,
>>
>>>is it enough to just put the license file inside
>>
>>the
>>
>>>jar as well?  
>>>
>>>JJ
>>>
>>>--- Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Well we don't ship a version without the build.xml
>>>>file.  We could put 
>>>>build.xml in the JAR but that just doesn't seem
>>
>>very
>>
>>>>elegant.  Besides 
>>>>you shouldn't distribute just the JAR since you
>>
>>need
>>
>>>>to copy over at 
>>>>least the license.  :-)
>>>>
>>>>-jh-
>>>
>>>
>>>
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