Comments inline (sorry).
Ted Husted wrote:
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.
Well this is just one of tens of files that have not had the ASF
copyright applied. It is copyrighted in the historical style of Roller
contributions; that is, it bears the copyright of the author and grants
the Roller Weblogger License. Being the current copyright holder of
record on that particular file, I can say it is not an indication of any
reluctance to apply the ASF copyright and grant the Apache license; it
has just not happened.
We all understood this had to happen at some point when joining the
incubator. I guess there has been some doubt whether we would end up
having to leave the incubator due to the LGPL issues and no satisfactory
resolution either on our end (switching off Hibernate) or the Apache end
(finding an agreement with FSF on interpretation/compatiblity).
If and when we are sure we have committed to resolve issues and push to
graduate, the copyrights should be applied. Regarding the mechanics of
this, I have been secretly hoping Dave or one of the other committers
(possibly me) would go through and do this in scripted fashion in one
swell foop.
--a.
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.)
This is a good point. I think we'd need some kind of grant from them.
-Ted.
