On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 21:47 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I was nosing around in the web pages at > http://incubator.apache.org/openoffice/www/ to understand exactly what is > going on with addition of "Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation" as > a footer and the inclusion of the > <!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more > contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with > this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. > [ ... ] > --> > as HTML comments in the <head> element of pages, etc. > > 1. I am not clear what principle is being applied here and what the > conditions of its application might be. (I'm not sure where there is > {intended to be} a NOTICE file, either.) [The project notes for this don't > mention this particular kind of change.] > > 2. I also see that this page, which is in that www sandbox too, has those > modifications: > <http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/www/terms_of_use.html>. But the > content appears to be the same as this: <http://openoffice.org/terms_of_use>, > so somehow the Apache copyright notice doesn't seem apt. > > 3. MORE EXCITING is that the OpenOffice.org page itself is identified as > having been revised on 2011-07-29 and it has this fascinating statement (also > found on our www-sandbox copy): > > "[4.]b. Source Code Submissions. You agree that any source code You > contribute to a Project will be submitted under, and subject to, the license > posted for that Project. If no license is posted, You agree that Your > Submission will be governed by the Apache License, Version 2.0, which terms > can be found at http://opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php. You acknowledge > that You are responsible for including all applicable copyright notices and > licenses with Your Submissions, and that You assume the risks of failing to > do so, including the potential loss of Your rights to Your Submissions." > > Does anyone know what this said before, when it was changed, and who changed > it? Or has it been this way pretty much all along?
Hi Dennis, Looking at the vcs for the website, the Apache license wording has been there, on the TOU page http://openoffice.org/projects/www/sources/webcontent/content/terms_of_use.html?rev=54 for at least 5 months. (The move to kenai time frame if I'm not mistaken, which I could be, easily) //drew
