[platform-update-dev] Features will require click-through license

[klicnik@xxxxxxxxxx]

This change went into 06/19 .... your "top level" features (ie. the ones user selects for installation) now must have a click-through license. If they do not, you will observe one of the following:

* if you are in the update manager, the feature install action buttons will not show
* if you are using "New Updates" action ("one-click update") the features will not show in the candidate update list

[note: if you are using nested features, only the parent needs to specify the license and should reflect the legal terms and conditions of the children in its license]

----- Forwarded by Vlad Klicnik/Toronto/IBM on 06/20/2002 07:37 AM -----

Vlad Klicnik/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA Sent by: platform-update-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 06/13/2002 03:15 PM Please respond to platform-update-dev

To:        platform-update-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx         cc:                 Subject:        [platform-update-dev] Features will require click-through license

This is a heads up .... 

We are being asked by the lawyers to modify feature handling by the update manager to always ensure the features selected for installation or update include a click-through license text (ie. specify <license>click through text</license>). I have updated the packaging document to reflect this. We will be making this change for the next milestone build. 

If you have features that you have been creating ("real" features, or test cases), you will need to ensure they specify license text in the feature.xml, or separated in feature.properties. Otherwise you will not be able to install them using the update manager support. 

The packaging spec is 
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update-home/doc/eclipse_update_packaging.html 

There is a defect opened to track this change 
http://dev.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20154