svn commit: r813323 - /forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/tasks.xml

Author: crossley
Date: Thu Sep 10 09:12:39 2009
New Revision: 813323

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=813323&view=rev
Log:
Improve description of "Legal Monitoring" task for adding licenses and notices to
top-level LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt files.
Link to more info.
Issue: FOR-857

Modified:
    forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/tasks.xml

Modified: forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/tasks.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/tasks.xml?rev=813323&r1=813322&r2=813323&view=diff
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--- forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/tasks.xml (original)
+++ forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/tasks.xml Thu Sep 10 09:12:39 2009
@@ -206,6 +206,18 @@
         <p>
           Regularly ensure that there are appropriate matching licenses to
           accompany each supporting product that we redistribute.
+          (Use the filename pattern: product-version[.-]license.txt or uppercase.)
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          For each such license, also ensure that it is referred to in
+          $FORREST_HOME/LICENSE.txt file. If their license required attribution,
+          then add to $FORREST_HOME/NOTICE.txt file. Also replicate any NOTICE
+          which accompanies a supporting product.
+          See <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-857">FOR-857</a>.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          See some guidelines at
+          <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/#licenses">ASF Legal</a>.
         </p>
         <p>
           This should have continual oversight by the PMC as a whole, but the