On 2/23/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the one hand it's bad to have non-ASF copyrighted code in the ASF > repository; on the other hand it might make the rollerweblogger > releases from the committers harder to do.
I guess I don't understand the problem. Do we have ASF committers that are adament that individual copyrights must be retained in material that is donated to the foundation? (We did have that case with another project.) Even if the board relaxes the policy that every file licensed to the ASF include our copyright, we still need to deal with ambigous files like * https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/src/org/roller/business/AutoPingManagerImpl.java which bear only the copyright of an individual and don't mention the ASF at all. Even then, I believe the policy would be to either place 1 copyright notice in licensed files running soley to the ASF, -OR- 0 copyright notices in licensed files, and a COPYRIGHT.txt listing all parties. Right now, we seem to be dong neither :) What is the Roller PPMC's policy? * If the Board relaxes the "every file" policy, will Roller choose to omit the standard copyright lines in favor of a root COPYRIGHT.txt file. * If a file already contains an individual copyright notice, and the holder is a ASF committer, have all the ASF committers agreed that we can we remove the individual notice? And, do we have paperwork on file for "past members" Mindaguas Idzelis and Jaap Van Der Molen? (I couldn't find any.) -Ted.
