IANAL. I would like as short a message as possible. I would also like a lawyer to decide which message is satisfactory (are you a lawyer). If there is no decisive assessment as to what is safe, I would like to be on the good side of safe.
I do *not* think that this discussion should take place on avalon-dev. I object to voting on the subject where it is apparantly unclear what choices have been given to us by the PMC, if we indeed have a choice. This is not something for a subproject to decide. Any change from current standard jakarta practice (and I think the short version is common) should be discussed in the appropriate forum. regards, - Leo Simons On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 15:15, Berin Loritsch wrote: > > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:01, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > > The small license doesn't protect us effectively. > > > > Thats false. > > The small license text *does* need to be modified. > > /* > * Copyright (C) The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. > * > * This software is published under the terms of the Apache Software > License > * version 1.1, a copy of which has been included with this distribution > in > * the LICENSE.txt file. > */ > > > In order for me to be satisfied with the boiler plate, we either need > the > full license, or we need to update this text (making it a little > longer): > > /* > * Copyright (C) 2002 by The Apache Software Foundation. > * All rights reserved. > * > * This software is licensed under the terms and conditions of the > Apache > * Software License version 1.1. A copy of the license has been > included > * with this distribution in the LICENSE.txt file. In the event that > you > * did not receive this source code in a distribution, you may read the > * license online at http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/license.html. > * > * This software is provided "AS IS", and the Apache Software Foundation > * will not be held liable for its use or misuse. Full disclosure is in > * the afformentioned license. > */ > > > The key differences are: > > 1) Date. Copyright law only protects you if you can prove prior art. > The date is a critical piece of information to prove that point. > > 2) Instructions to find the license do not assume that the source was > obtained as part of a distribution. WebCVS, or sending the code > via email pulls the source code from its original context. > > 3) Reminder of the limited liability clause in the license. > > > If we go to a short license, I highly recommend covering our butts with > the longer "short" version above. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
