On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:25 AM, jean-frederic clere<jfcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Leif Hedstrom wrote: >> >> On Jun 25, 2009, at 7:59 AM, jean-frederic clere wrote: >> >>> I don't think that is a problem: httpd (and other ASF project) also uses >>> autconf/autoheader/automake to generate the configure that are included in >>> the sources tarballs. >> >> Cool! One more (followup) question: >> >> We have a couple of files which currently have the BSD license attached to >> them, and these are flagged as potential IP violations. Is it possible to >> include these files and re-release them under the Apache license, or do we >> need to eliminate them (i.e. clean-room rewrite the functionality) ?
assuming that the BSD files are flagged for licensing purposes (and not because they have dubious prevenance) then - with some care - there's no need to clean room rewrite the functionality. when preparing the source for donation, it's best to retain the original license and include some provenance information so that it's easier to track them. once the donation has happened, the disclaimers need to be included in the LICENSE documents included in the binary. the original licenses need to be retained in the source (typically as a quoted attribution with an apache header once significant changes have been made to the source). but it's probably easiest to ask about this on the legal-discuss list... - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
