You are wrong there. Best regards,
Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Michael Brohl <michael.br...@ecomify.de> wrote: > Pierre, > > it seems you are not sure about it, assuming from your question in > legal-discuss here: https://lists.apache.org/threa > d.html/cdc08a88d47709738c4aa7595a3dc2446e7aa5450d4b6ffc8cc56 > b52@%3Clegal-discuss.apache.org%3E > > Regards, > Michael > > Am 16.09.16 um 10:43 schrieb Pierre Smits: > >> -1 regarding the use of the ASL2 license for readme files. Because it is >> the wrong license for that kind of work. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Pierre Smits >> >> ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> >> >> OFBiz based solutions & services >> >> OFBiz Extensions Marketplace >> http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ >> >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Jacques Le Roux < >> jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: >> >> So we can't decide as a community? Weird :-o >>> >>> Jacques >>> >>> >>> >>> Le 16/09/2016 à 10:21, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Jacques Le Roux < >>>> jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Devs, >>>> >>>>> There are mixed opinions about putting or not the ASL2 header in OFBiz >>>>> README files. >>>>> >>>>> One one hand we can read at http://www.apache.org/legal/sr >>>>> c-headers.html#faq-exceptions that README files don't require a header >>>>> >>>>> But to protect our work we can decide to put a header in all README >>>>> files >>>>> (with or w/o suffixes). It's all or none to be consistent. >>>>> >>>>> Since License is an important matter I think a vote is necessary to >>>>> define >>>>> our policy. >>>>> >>>>> So please vote >>>>> >>>>> [+1] include a header in all README files >>>>> >>>>> [-1] do not include a header in any README files >>>>> >>>>> [0] Undecided >>>>> >>>>> I will close this vote in a week, thanks for your time ! >>>>> >>>>> Jacques >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> In my opinion this vote is not valid and should be cancelled. >>>>> >>>> My reasoning is the following: the result of this vote may be against >>>> the >>>> ASF license policy and as a project we are not allowed to change the ASF >>>> license policy by vote. In fact our codebase is licensed by the ASF and >>>> not >>>> by OFBiz. >>>> >>>> Why am I saying that the result of this vote may be against the ASF >>>> license >>>> policy? >>>> >>>> If we decide to "not include a header in any README files" then we will >>>> violate the following [*]: >>>> >>>> "A file without any degree of creativity in either its literal elements >>>> or >>>> its structure is not protected by copyright law; therefore, such a file >>>> does not require a license header. If in doubt about the extent of the >>>> file's creativity, add the license header to the file." >>>> >>>> In fact it would be difficult to state that the following file (for >>>> example) does't contain "any degree of creativity": >>>> >>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/README.md?view=markup >>>> >>>> In fact it contains useful documentation that was contributed by >>>> different >>>> people who spent time crafting its content. >>>> >>>> When in doubt, we should add the license header (as stated in the >>>> document >>>> that Jacques and I referenced); or we can omit it if we judge that the >>>> file >>>> doesn't contain any degree of creativity. >>>> But definitely we can't blindly decide by vote for all the files >>>> matching >>>> a >>>> name (i.e. README) as proposed by Jacques in this vote. >>>> Since deciding on a case by case may be tricky and even subjective, my >>>> *personal* preference would be to add to all the files the license >>>> header. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Jacopo >>>> >>>> [*] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions >>>> >>>> >>>> > >
