- All releases made after March 1 must use the new Apache License 2.0. Please note that this applies to *all* releases, even maintenance releases where the original went out under the 1.1 license. Please see http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html for more information on applying the license.
Shall we tackle the update this week?
* In conjunction with the the discussion about relicensing and some
copyright issues, the Board is establishing an official policy in this
area:
- each and every file must have exactly *one* Copyright line, specifying
The Apache Software Foundation. additional individual or corporate
copyrights are not allowed.
(of course, binary files or certain restrictively formatted files
cannot include the copyright and license, but the copyright/license
header should be in everything possible)
Does this mean we have to have the full licence in each file ...or is the one and only copyright line good enough - if there is a reference to the licence?
- author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications around the use of author tags
We had quite a discussion about this... ..so remove the author tags on the same update?
WDYGT -- Torsten
