Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Hopefully the final word on about fil

[Kenneth Hussey <khussey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bjorn,

What does the following from section
2.11 of the release review guidelines mean?

• ... the "copyright" field of each plug-in is set to the copyright owner (the Eclipse Foundation is rarely the copyright owner).

I wasn't aware that plug-ins had a 'copyright'
field...

Thanks,

Kenn Hussey

Senior Software Developer
Rational Software, IBM Software Group

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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05/30/2007 12:28 PM

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Subject	[eclipse.org-planning-council] Hopefully the final word on about files and license files for Europa  (and future releases)

Europa Team Leads,
The tool that I put in place to check the about and license files has had
the wrong net effect. I apologize for that and for the ill will it created.
The intent of the tool was to verify that each project lead had reviewed
their about and license files - that the files exist and that their contents
are correct. So... version 2 of the process and tool is:

(1) Each project lead or PMC lead will send an email to the eclipse.org-planning-council
mailing list saying:
-------------------------------------------------
I certify that all features and plug-ins of project <project name>
contain the correct legal documentation. Specifically, that the terms and
conditions governing Plug-ins and Fragments are contained in files named
"about.html" and that the terms and conditions governing Features
and Included Features are contained in files named "license.html".
I certify that I have reviewed these legal files for the following features
and plug-ins:

org.eclipse.foobar 1.2.0
org.eclipse.tweedle.core 3.7.1
org.eclipse.dee.ui 9.9.0
<plug-in or feature id> <version number>
...entire list...

<your signature>
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This level of detail (plug-ins and versions) is required as an additional
check (sort of a signature in triplicate) that the reviews have actually
been done. (There have, unfortunately, been cases in the past where the
blanket "all reviews have been done" statement has been made
but later turned out to be false - a sufficient number of them that we
now require this extra level of detail.)

(2) The revised tool will check for two things: (a) it will check the existence
of the license.html and about.html files and (b) the non-existence of any
plug-ins and features not listed in the emails from (1).  In other
words, the revised tool will report errors if:

• a plug-in does not have an about.html
• a plug-in not mentioned in an email has an about.html (the assumption being that if the plug-in is not mentioned, it has not been reviewed)
• a feature does not have a feature.html
• a feature not mentioned in an email has a license.html (the assumption being that if the feature is not mentioned, it has not been reviewed)

This will roll out for RC3 so please
do the necessary reviews (you should already have done so in order to create
the Release Review slides - due today) and send those assertion emails
to the mailing list by this Friday so that I can incorporate your lists
into the checker tool.
- Bjorn_______________________________________________
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