A while back, Geir asked for someone to volunteer to take a look at his first pass at gathering all of the COPYRIGHT, LICENSE, NOTICE, and other such files from the top level of the several Harmony directory trees that he had gathered them into 'harmony/enhanced/trunk'.
I have taken a look at these and have summarized them below. Following that is a short proposal as to what to do about finishing this process that Geir started by eliminating the redundancies while retaining the unique elements of these files for each area. From the Harmony SVN repository https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/harmony/enhanced: trunk/ COPYRIGHT -- contains these declarations: (C) Copyright 2005 Intel Corporation (C) Copyright 2005-2006 Intel Corporation INCUBATOR_NOTICE.txt "...Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects..." LICENSE Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004 http://www.apache.org/licenses ... TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, ... 1. Definitions. ... NOTICE -- re ASF License 2.0 section 4 d: "Portions of Harmony..." Intel Corporation Internet Society RFC 3280 re X.509 Public Key Infrastructure THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt -- regarding a number of packages: ICU4C version 3.4: ICU License - ICU 1.8.1 and later-- IBM 1995-2005 ICU4J version 3.4: ICU4J 1.3.1 and later-- IBM 1995-2005 ICU4JNI version 3.4: ICU4JNI 1.3.1 and later-- IBM 1995-2005 FDLIBM version 5.2: Sun 2004 ZLIB version 1.2.3: 1995-2004 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler Visual C++ Runtime Files: The file msvcr71.dll is the Microsoft(R) C Runtime Library. This file is redistributed from Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 7.1 Bouncy Castle version 133: 2000 - 2006 The Legion Of The Bouncy Castle MX4J 3.0.1: The MX4J License, Version 1.0 Copyright (c) 2001-2004 by the MX4J contributors The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane Little CMS 1998-2004 Marti Maria libpng 2004, 2006 Glenn Randers-Pehrson Unicode Character Database 1991-2005 Unicode, Inc. classlib/trunk COPYRIGHT identical to 'trunk/COPYRIGHT' regarding "(C) Copyright 2005 Intel Corporation" LICENSE identical to 'trunk/LICENSE' NOTICE identical to 'trunk/NOTICE' README.txt "...Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects..." same as 'trunk/INCUBATOR_NOTICE.txt', plus additional information following) THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt identical to 'trunk/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt' classlib/trunk/modules/rmi COPYRIGHT identical to 'trunk/COPYRIGHT' regarding "(C) Copyright 2005-2006 Intel Corporation" LICENSE identical to 'trunk/LICENSE' NOTICE identical to 'trunk/NOTICE' portion regarding Intel Corporation drlvm/trunk COPYRIGHT identical to 'trunk/COPYRIGHT' regarding "(C) Copyright 2005-2006 Intel Corporation" LICENSE identical to 'trunk/LICENSE' NOTICE identical to 'trunk/NOTICE' portion regarding Intel Corporation jchevm LICENSE identical to 'trunk/LICENSE' NOTICE Same as 'trunk/NOTICE' portion regarding portion regarding, "This product includes software developed by the ASF" but then adds info about code derived from the SableVM project. Here is a possible way to meet Geir's original objectives: (1) Make 'trunk' the focal point where all such files are gathered. (2) For files that are completely common between the projects, such as 'LICENSE', remove the copies in each directory and replace them in SVN with a symbolic link to the version in 'trunk'. (3) For files that have significant redundant content, replace the common portions of these files with statements referencing the relevant language in a like-named file in 'trunk'. As an alternative, retain the language but add a reference to the common file. (4) In order to protect the integrity of the licensing agreements for bulk contributions, maintain their existing 'COPYRIGHT' files as they stand, but add a related file to 'trunk' that has the same exact contents. Should the original files change, which is highly unlikely, since it concerns a historical event, then the 'trunk' version would be updated also. (By keeping these files as they stand, then there can never be any question as to the arrangement by which that code came into the ASF, thus protecting all parties.) The relevant files are: classlib/trunk/COPYRIGHT: "(C) Copyright 2005 Intel Corporation" classlib/trunk/modules/rmi/COPYRIGHT: "(C) Copyright 2005-2006 Intel Corporation" drlvm/trunk/COPYRIGHT: "(C) Copyright 2005-2006 Intel Corporation" The suggested additions become: trunk/COPYRIGHT.classlib: "(C) Copyright 2005 Intel Corporation" trunk/COPYRIGHT.dlrvm: "(C) Copyright 2005-2006 Intel Corporation" trunk/COPYRIGHT: remove this file The existing file 'trunk/COPYRIGHT' would be removed because it only contains the messages from the two other directories, yet does not state which copyright notice goes with which contribution. (5) The LICENSE files may be combined into one central location: trunk/LICENSE The central focus and target of all others classlib/trunk/LICENSE Replaced by symbolic link to 'trunk/LICENSE' classlib/trunk/modules/rmi/LICENSE Replaced by symbolic link to 'trunk/LICENSE' drlvm/trunk/LICENSE Replaced by symbolic link to 'trunk/LICENSE' jchevm/LICENSE Replaced by symbolic link to 'trunk/LICENSE' (6) The NOTICE files retain their existing text, but adds a statement such as, "This notice also appears in the main 'harmony/enhanced/trunk/NOTICE' file, where all such notices appear." trunk/NOTICE Contains a grand union of all NOTICE files. classlib/trunk/NOTICE Adds this message at the end of its text classlib/trunk/modules/rmi/LICENSE Adds this message at the end of its text drlvm/trunk/LICENSE Adds this message at the end of its text jchevm/LICENSE Adds this message at the end of its text (7) The THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt files may be combined into one central location: trunk/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICE.txt The central focus and target of all others classlib/trunk/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICE.txt * Replaced by symbolic link to 'trunk/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt' --OR-- * Add language at the end of this file to the effect "this list is part of a project-wide list found in 'trunk/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt' (Comments?) (8) Ad hoc changes to selected files, namely: classlib/trunk/README.txt Remove language that is identical to 'trunk/INCUBATOR_NOTICE.txt', then in its place, add reference to that file for such information. (9) All other files are unchanged, namely: trunk/INCUBATOR_NOTICE.txt (10) In _all_ such files, set 'svn propset svn:eol-style=native' to avoid white space differences in comparison between them and usage by all interested parties without wrangling with this issue. (11) Future bulk contributions 'harmony/enhanced/foo' would then follow this same general approach: (a) to gather all common files into 'harmony/enhanced/trunk' and point symbolic links to them. (b) Add a 'harmony/enhanced/trunk/COPYRIGHT.foo' file containing their prior copyright information. (c) Any NOTICE file would add the appropriate reference to 'trunk/NOTICE' and extend that file with any new language. (d) Third party notices would be added at the end of 'trunk/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt' and add a symbolic link 'foo/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt' to point to that addition, or add a file by that name containing _only_ the new information and language referring to the global one. (Comments?) (12) Suggest replacing the name 'THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt' simply with 'THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES' (for consistency in naming), perhaps in 'classlib/trunk' adding a symbolic link with the old name pointing to the new. Your comments would be appreciated. Dan Lydick > [Original Message] > From: Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 7/20/06 9:52:37 PM > Subject: Re: [general] centralization of the NOTICE, COPYRIGHT, etc files > > Well, go for it! See what I have in there now and see what you think... > > geir > > > bootjvm wrote: > > Geir, > > > > I have been working off and on with on putting together > > a contribution for this purpose. It has all the things you > > mentioned plus some more things. If you like, I would > > be glad to put it together shortly and submit for The List's > > inspection and approval. What do you say? > > > > > > Dan Lydick > > > > > >> [Original Message] > >> From: Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Date: 7/20/06 2:07:14 PM > >> Subject: [general] centralization of the NOTICE, COPYRIGHT, etc files > >> > >> If you haven't guessed from my random checkins, questions, and > >> befuddlement, I'm finishing off a first cut at a federated build. > >> > >> The plan is to cut a hdk and a jre snapshot. The HDK will contain the > >> jre, but I thought it would be more conventional for users to get a > >> plain jre and not have to figure out what a HDK is. > >> > >> Now, I want to coalesce the NOTICE, COPYRIGHT, 3rd party, etc files into > >> one project-wide file in > >> > >> enhanced/trunk/ > >> > >> and replace the ones we have in classlib/, drlvm/ etc with a NOTICE, etc > >> file that points to the root one. > >> > >> Any complaints, suggestions? > >> > >> geir > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
