I have to say I don't understand where we stand at this point. If
anybody can give me a recipe of what I should be doing I would
appreciate it...
David
Daniel John Debrunner (JIRA) wrote:
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1377?page=comments#action_12422783 ]
Daniel John Debrunner commented on DERBY-1377:
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The ASF claims copyright on the distribution, the collection of many
contributions from many, so that is one case where
Copyright [yyyy] The Apache Software Foundation
is correct (though I'm not a laywer).
It's interesting to read through the discussion in legal-disucss archives,
follow the first [1] link Jean gave. One reading could be that notices of the
form:
Copyright [yyyy] The Apache Software Foundation
are being removed from source files because they are legally incorrect, no
copyright assignment at ASF.
Since Derby is a somewhat new project it has been following the newer policy(
that Andrew pointed out) and thus has legally correct notices:
Copyright 1997, 2004 The Apache Software Foundation or its licensors, as applicable.
Removing these might require the permission of the actual copyright holders,
which might be a pain to track down as to who has copyright on each file
(allowing multiple holders per file). The new ASF policy does allow copyright
notices to be left in the header (but would prefer not to).
Update copyright headers to comply with new ASF policy
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Key: DERBY-1377
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1377
Project: Derby
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Documentation
Affects Versions: 10.2.0.0
Reporter: Jean T. Anderson
Assigned To: David Van Couvering
Priority: Blocker
Fix For: 10.2.0.0
A new copyright header policy will take effect for distributions released
starting on Sep 1, 2006. Committers will receive notification, but a heads up
with details is in the legal-discuss thread starting with
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200606.mbox/[EMAIL
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Date was 1-Aug-2006, is now 1-Sep-2006:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200607.mbox/[EMAIL
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