-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Jonas S Karlsson wrote: > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> As Ken explained in >> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]& >> msgNo=362, the copyright holder would be The Apache Software Foundation, >> having received a copyright grant from IBM. The purpose for having the >> copyright holder pluggable is to allow other entities to re-use the Apache >> License. > > That is not clear from the referred pages.
so i'm clarifying it. > In this case, according to Jennifer the "copyright owner" is still > IBM, and she doesn't want the IBM copyright notices to be removed or > replaced since that could imply Apache copyright ownership. um, where is this 'according to jennifer' source you're citing? i was intimately involved in the grant discussions and i remember nothing of the sort. > She also states that ASF copyright notices can be *added* to > intellectual property created (i.e. modified code) or owned by ASF. > Adding an embedded copy of the ASF v2.0 licence is OK according to > her. ditto. > Whether the copyright notices can be removed/replaced or not I cannot > find any support for directly in the apache documentation. But IANAL > and this is an issue for ASF lawyers to look into. two officers and a director of the asf have provided clarification and instructions. - -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQUiNaZrNPMCpn3XdAQGMIAP/Si6jw1b1SULS32cgV3NJ8hRjAL/z3mdO ngCwdRbChXHxVVeQ2jdNQDK7PdbjkPcMXQVwEOvLLN3sWLML0eHl1+XTCWTVihMn 3pJf6cZcI1fO5ak0/cMkPCMjbYTvk4m082udPcRyRjXQJhTwSuHqoBXs3W21LemG IFybqbEpNMk= =qZpX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----