[jdom-interest] License File

[Jason Hunter]

Well, the README.txt isn't a license so I don't see why you'd call it 
jdom.license.  But including the README and license with the 
distribution sounds fine.

-jh-

William Krick wrote:

> If I distribute the jdom.jar as-is (unmodified) with my application, is it
> sufficient for me to include the jdom README.txt renamed to "jdom.license"
> in the directory with the jar file?  Or do I need to do something else as
> well?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org
>>[mailto:jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org]On Behalf Of Jason Hunter
>>Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:58 PM
>>To: John Jefferson
>>Cc: jdom
>>Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] License File
>>
>>
>>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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