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On Feb 23, 2006, at 11:52 AM, 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.)
I don't believe so. However, when I was researching the move to
Apache some people told me that copyright DID NOT have to be
signed over to Apache. Despite those capital letters, I don't really
have a strong opinion on this topic.
Has Sun insisted on keeping Sun copyright on committer contributions
on other Apache projects?
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?
Good question ;-)
And, do we have paperwork on file for "past members" Mindaguas Idzelis
and Jaap Van Der Molen? (I couldn't find any.)
No we don't.
When I started Roller, I thought that all contributions would become
copyright by me. Later I realized that was not the open source norm and
I started leaving copyrights on the files.
Recently, I've be adding "Copyright Sun" on code I write for Sun and
"Copyright Dave Johnson" for other code I contribute (e.g. the Atom
protocol implementation I wrote in off-hours for my book).
I'm comfortable going with Apache best practice on the copyright
and @author tag stuff -- as long as the team agrees to that.
- Dave
