On Sep 24, 2004, at 10:27 PM, Jennifer B Machovec wrote:
The portions of code that are contributed by IBM remain under IBM
copyright, even if the individual IBM copyright notices are stricken from
the main files. The statement in the NOTICE file just serves as an
indicator to others that IBM owns some of the code contained in Derby.
Is there some reason that IBM is unwilling to transfer copyright and related IP to the ASF?
Traditionally, the only time we distribute code under someone else's copyright is when we are including other works as a convenience for our users, such as packaging something in a distribution. Otherwise, we tend not to host projects owned by other entities. Sourceforge is good for that.
geir
Cheers,
Jennifer Machovec
"Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/24/2004 07:35 AM Please respond to "Derby Development"
To: Derby Development <derby-dev@db.apache.org> cc: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Derby code copyright question
Thanks for taking care of this, but there's something I don't understand :
Once all the copyright at the top of files are converted to (c) ASF, which portions would still be (c) IBM?
geir
On Sep 24, 2004, at 7:27 AM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
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okey, after discussing this in seven different directions, we have a clear conclusion, which i'll summarise here:
1. the NOTICE file (or NOTICE.txt) gets created if it doesn't already exist, and this gets added to it:
Portions of Apache Derby are © Copyright 2004 International Business Machines Corporation. All rights reserved.
if there are earlier copyright years in any any of the main files, the earliest one of all should be taken and used to change the notice to 'Copyright <earliest-year>, 2004 International ..'. in other words, the range of copyright years in the NOTICE file should be the earliest one with IBM's name on it in the sources, followed by ', 2004'.
2. the ibm copyright in the individual files gets replaced with
Apache Derby © Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
and reference to the apache licence added as described in http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#apply
et vóilà! that item can then get checked off the incubation goal list and we can focus on *real* code issues. :-)
see also http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html for common questions about this stuff. the procedure above, which has finally been clarified, should be used by the incubator folks to update that file at some point. - -- #ken P-)}
Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/
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