Oops, let this sit in my draft folder for hours. I blame the wonders of oxycodone and pain management.
The TL;DR: You're doing great on the notices. Some nuances and clarification of NOTICE below. - Dennis Peter, Thanks for asking about this. I think the new notices on files are just fine (and COR-41 is totally elective but valuable as a casual undertaking). The README.md probably needs an ASF notice too. Some ASF purists expect that NOTICE and LICENSE will appear without a .txt extension. I don't expect any/much push-back about that on a release, and if there were, it is probably something that could be fixed on a following release. After a few years watching the lists about the proper use of these files, I think you are fine except for what might be needed for external dependencies, etc. That can be dealt with as platform and external-dependencies (including for incorporated source code) are handled. It would be useful to obtain an appraisal from the mentors on this. I'm confident that we have enough information to avoid marching over to discuss-legal and general-incubator to hammer anything out. We will need to run RAT on the repository as part of diligence with regard to third-party license notices and claims, and that should be done before declaring every release candidate. I think this can be done on an unzip of the source archive for a given release, since there is more time to clean up IP on unreleased code/dependencies. ABOUT NOTICE It has been made very clear that NOTICE is not an attribution or acknowledgment file. It must be limited to *legally-required* notice information. Moving your copyright notice there is perfect under the third-party rules. Any associated licenses that are required to be included are appended to LICENSE, and multiple uses of common licenses only needs to appear in LICENSE once. (Aside: My inclination would be to include the git commit hash for the code as it was before you made the contribution cited in NOTICE, but I don't think that is a requirement. Anyone willing to do some forensic work in the git can find that point on their own, a nice feature of Git having all history in each clone.) MY COPYRIGHT AND NOTICE I believe all of my contributions of any substance came after the move to the incubator, although I was made a member of the UX project before that. In any case, I have not applied any copyright notices to files from me (except ASF notices) and I am in complete accord with the code being licensed to the ASF. There is no requirement to do anything in NOTICE on my behalf. Having a CONTRIBUTORS file would be valuable though. It may be of interest to you that I have made a license declaration that goes beyond the iCLA. I believe that declaration is on file with the ASF Secretary. The purpose of my declaration is to establish that I provide the same license as the iCLA makes to *anyone* who obtains a contribution of mine from an ASF Project, even if the contribution is never (or not yet) reflected in a release. I did this to put no strings on my AOO contributions being used by LibreOffice and anyone else, regardless of ever being merged into an AOO release. (I have made the identical declaration for any of my contributions to LibreOffice, providing all rights that an iCLA grants, with no limitation, not even mention, concerning MPL or any other license choice.) Here is one public notification of the grant that I made concerning ASF contributions, <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201303.mbox/%[email protected]%3e> In the transmittal text (not part of the grant), the first appearance of "LibreOffice" (4th paragraph at the top of the list message body) should read "an ASF Project". - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Peter Kelly [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 19:29 To: [email protected] Subject: Copyright notices I’ve finally gotten around to updating the copyright notices in all the source files to reflect the requirements described at http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html. The copyright statement for UX Productivity now lives in NOTICES.txt; anyone else who has make contributions so far should add their name to this file. I’ve left the files in platform unchanged to avoid merge conflicts with Jan’s changes; I’ll let him take care of those. Could someone with more experience with Apache licensing than me please verify that the changes I’ve made are correct? — Dr Peter M. Kelly [email protected] PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966)
