We are about 3 weeks away from generating a release candidate which must
conform to a new, murky policy. These options occur to me:
1) Generate a release which follows the old policy. I would imagine that
the DB PMC would feel bound to reject such a release.
2) Wait for the policy to sort itself out lazily. Do we have reason to
believe that this issue will move forward imminently after several
months' stagnation?
3) Actively seek clarification from the appropriate authorities now.
My gut feeling is that option (3) has the least risk attached to it.
Regards,
-Rick
Jean T. Anderson wrote:
David Van Couvering wrote:
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...
I suggest you hold off doing anything yet, and give this time to sort out.
-jean
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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