On 2/23/06, Anil Gangolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
The middle road might be to start removing the individual copyrights for people who have filed CLAs. It does look like not having a copyright in every file will be OK with the ASF, so long as there is a COPYRIGHT.txt file at the root. We could use the list in README.txt for the COPYRIGHT.txt for now, and add the ASF copyright to the list, until the other issues are resolved. If anyone did want to run a script later, it would be easier if the head of each file were consistent (e.g. no notices at all). I would like to start a code review, for my own erudition, and could do that as I go. We also need to be sure that any notices that are already in files are from people who have filed CLAs or Grants, or make a list of who still needs to file. But, I'll tell you what, if it comes down to replacing with Hibernate with something, I'll happily do it with Cayenne or iBATIS. * http://www.objectstyle.org/cayenne/ -Ted.
