THIRD_PARTY_README mangled

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Would it make sense to have master copies of these licenses somewhere, 
and have RE
update these THIRD_PARTY_README files automatically when needed, much as 
they
update copyrights and/or validate the legal notices in source files?

-- Jon


Brad Wetmore wrote:
> Tim/Kelly, why are there copies of the THIRD_PARTY_README in 7 
> different repositories?  We started with 7 identical copies, but now 
> they have diverged into two different versions following Tim's 
> putback.  Are they supposed to be all the same?  What's the intent 
> here?  See below.
>
>
> Martin,
>
> > It appears that some licenses are correctly included verbatim,
> > and some are gratuitously reformatted.
>
> I'm not seeing this reformatting you're talking about...
>
> What I do see here...there are now two different versions of the 
> THIRD_PARTY_README in the repositories.  I don't know why or what was 
> intended (above).
>
> 1)  There was an initial load in all these workspaces:
>
> ., corba, hotspot, langtools, jaxp, jaxws, jdk
>
> All the README files are identical.  (same sums)
>
> 2)  The following workspaces were updated by Tim Bell to add something 
> by Marti Maria, and remove something by Peter Norvig.
>
> jaxp, jaxws, jdk
>
> This were done under three different bugs:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jaxp/raw-rev/b56d870cb5c8
> 6738894: Merge jaxp fixes from 6 update train into OpenJDK 6 and 7
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jaxws/raw-rev/31822b475baa
> 6831313: update jaxws in OpenJDK7 to 2.1 plus bug fixes from OpenJDK 6
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/raw-rev/13cd6eb34cfa
> 6695776: corba jscheme jar files in repository could be built from source
>
> I didn't see any reformatting.
>
> 3)  All of the workspaces were updated by Abhijit for a copyright date 
> change (2005 to 2007):
>
> 6803688: Integrate latest JAX-WS (2.1.6) in to JDK 6u14
>
> For some reason, the same change went into the jaxws repository but 
> under a different bugid.
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jaxws/diff/860b95cc8d1d/THIRD_PARTY_README 
>
> 6813167: 6u14 JAX-WS audit mutable static bugs
>
> Again, I'm not seeing any reformatting.
>
> Brad