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Bug 325378

Summary:	EPL License text included in content.jar 24 times
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Alex Blewitt

2010-09-15 13:39:36 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.6.0

The P2 update site for Helios contains the standard EPL 24 times in its body, with the result that even compressed, this file is 74k. (Uncompressed, it's 900k+)

http://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/helios/R/content.jar

Surely this could use a URL to the license text instead of verbose copying of the license?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Download http://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/helios/R/content.jar

Look at content.xml

Count the number of times the license appears

(Chris suggested filing this against P2, but it's not clear if this is releng or EPP's responsibility)

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2010-09-15 13:45:08 EDT

Yes, there is currently an effort in p2 to change this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 306818 ***

Comment 2 Alex Blewitt

2011-06-20 12:31:58 EDT

This didn't end up fixing it; we now have bug 349822 with 105 copies of the EPL.