* Moved all third party license filed into the 'license' directory

* Beautified NOTICE.txt

NOTICE.txt

@@ -24,42 +24,65 @@ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
 
-Also, please refer to each LICENSE.<component>.txt file for the license
+Also, please refer to each LICENSE.<component>.txt file, which is located in
-terms of the components that this product depends on.
+the 'license' directory of the distribution file, for the license terms of the
+components that this product depends on.
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 This product contains the extensions to Java Collections Framework which has
 been derived from the works by JSR-166 EG, Doug Lea, and Jason T. Greene:
 
+  * LICENSE:
+    * license/LICENSE.jsr177y.txt (Public Domain)
+  * HOMEPAGE:
     * http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/
     * http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbosscache/experimental/jsr166/
 
 This product contains a modified version of Robert Harder's Public Domain
 Base64 Encoder and Decoder, which can be obtained at:
 
+  * LICENSE:
+    * license/LICENSE.base64.txt (Public Domain)
+  * HOMEPAGE:
     * http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/java/base64/
 
 This product optionally depends on 'Protocol Buffers', Google's data
 interchange format, which can be obtained at:
 
+  * LICENSE:
+    * license/LICENSE.protobuf.txt (New BSD License)
+  * HOMEPAGE:
     * http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
 
 This product optionally depends on 'SLF4J', a simple logging facade for Java,
 which can be obtained at:
 
+  * LICENSE:
+    * license/LICENSE.slf4j.txt (MIT License)
+  * HOMEPAGE:
     * http://www.slf4j.org/
 
 This product optionally depends on 'Apache Commons Logging', a logging
 framework, which can be obtained at:
 
+  * LICENSE:
+    * license/LICENSE.commons-logging.txt (Apache License 2.0)
+  * HOMEPAGE:
     * http://commons.apache.org/logging/
 
 This product optionally depends on 'Apache Log4J', a logging framework,
 which can be obtained at:
 
+  * LICENSE:
+    * license/LICENSE.log4j.txt (Apache License 2.0)
+  * HOMEPAGE:
     * http://logging.apache.org/log4j/
 
 This product optionally depends on 'JBoss Logging', a logging framework,
 which can be obtained at:
 
+  * LICENSE:
+    * license/LICENSE.jboss-logging.txt (GNU LGPL 2.1)
+  * HOMEPAGE:
     * http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/common/common-logging-spi/
 

pom.xml

@@ -205,6 +205,10 @@
                         <include name="NOTICE.*" />
                         <include name="COPYRIGHT.*" />
                       </zipfileset>
+                      <zipfileset dir="${basedir}/license" prefix="META-INF/license/">
+                        <exclude name="**/.*/**" />
+                        <include name="**" />
+                      </zipfileset>
                       <zipfileset filemode="644" src="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.orig.jar" dirmode="755">
                         <exclude name="*/*/*/example/**" />
                       </zipfileset>
@@ -217,6 +221,10 @@
                         <include name="NOTICE.*" />
                         <include name="COPYRIGHT.*" />
                       </zipfileset>
+                      <zipfileset dir="${basedir}/license" prefix="META-INF/license/">
+                        <exclude name="**/.*/**" />
+                        <include name="**" />
+                      </zipfileset>
                       <zipfileset filemode="644" src="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}-sources.orig.jar" dirmode="755">
                         <exclude name="*/*/*/example/**" />
                       </zipfileset>

src/assembly/default.xml

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
         <include>**/COPYRIGHT*</include>
         <include>**/*.txt</include>
         <include>**/*.xml</include>
+        <include>**/license/**</include>
         <include>**/src/**</include>
       </includes>
       <excludes>