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Hi, To summarize from similar discussions on the commons and tomcat lists:
- Removing author tags without the author's consent: absolutely not, never.
- Removing author tags with the author's explicit consent in a publicly archived forum (e.g. any apache mailing list archive, but not a private email) is OK.
- Using tags like "@author <a href="" href="http://logging.apache.org/">http://logging.apache.org">The Logging Services Team</a>" is encouraged.
- If the author wants his/her name in the file, that's fine, but authors are discouraged from putting their email addresses in the file, so "@author Bob Smith" is better than "@author <a href="" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
That’s about it.
Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics
>-----Original Message----- >From: Scott Deboy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 11:38 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: cvs commit: logging-log4j/src/xdocs faq.xml > >Is it official policy to remove author tags from source files? > >Board minutes here discuss the issue: >http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2004/board_minutes_2004_02 >_18.txt > > D. Discussion: copyright ownership > > Although initiated due to the current efforts for Spam Assassin, > the board discussed at length the issues and guidelines regarding > copyright ownership for the ASF. It was agreed that all files > should have 1 single copyright to the ASF. Copyrights extend > to the work as a whole, and the ASF must have these. The > use of the CHANGES files should note any "history" regarding > copyrights and that the use of 'author' tags should be > discouraged for this and other reasons. > >It looks like there is/was discussion on this issue after these minutes >were produced, so I'm not sure if this was the final word on the subject. >Should we be removing author tags? > >My 2 cents: It's nice to see who have made changes to source, without >having to wander into viewCVS. > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Fri 9/3/2004 6:14 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: >Subject: cvs commit: logging-log4j/src/xdocs faq.xml >ceki 2004/09/03 06:14:19 > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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- RE: cvs commit: logging-log4j/src/xdocs faq.xml Shapira, Yoav
