Jon Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 6/8/01 6:52 AM, "Pier P. Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Jasper Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> I am starting a new open source project and would like to use the apache
>>> licence for two reasons: the ability to use the code in commercial projects
>>> and in the hope that one day it may get accepted as a Jakarta project. I
>>> have a couple of questions as to how to apply the licence:
>>>
>>> Does the full licence have to be included at the top of each file or can it
>>> be included in the distribution with a smaller include at the top, like GPL?
>>
>> Some of us quote it entirely, some of us use the small quote, it really
>> depends. Usually we quote it entirely, but that can be changed easily if
>> wanted..
>>
>> Pier
>
> The full quoted license is currently the only way to do it "officially" by
> the ASF and have it be legal.
>
> Having a shorter license for people to use in source files is part of the
> requirements for the next license revision.
You're on the licensing list, and know better than me, but I remember
committing something with headers like
/***********************************************************************
* (C) xxxx,xxxx The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. *
* ------------------------------------------------------------------- *
* This software is distributed under the terms of the Apache Software *
* License version x.x a copy of which can be found in the LICENSE.txt *
* file included in this distribution. *
***********************************************************************/
Should I go back and change it?
Pier
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