2009/10/23 Paul Benedict <[email protected]>:
> Based on the latest javadocs, Spring 3.0 no longer includes Struts 1.x
> support. Because of this, I want to copy their struts package into a
> new struts-spring module to be distributed here at Apache. Their code
> is already published under the ASL -- must I go through IP clearance
> procedures? Or does Apache really believe ASL code is free?

Paul, do not confuse *license* with *copyright*
It is true that Spring gives everything under ASL, and it is true that
they still own their code.
You *can* grab their code to change it and add it to your codebase,
but it still derives from *their* code.
So there are two options:
* convince Spring to donate their code to Apache, so there are no
copyright issues, using the IP clerance procedure;
* take Spring code, modify it, but add a line in the NOTICE file and
add the whole license header on the top of every file that you grab
and/or modify.

Antonio

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