Re: Putting copyright notices in ZK?
Hi Henry, I will check with them. Can you point me to the other open source projects that you are referring to? Thanks. -Vishal On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Henry Robinson he...@cloudera.com wrote: Hi Vishal - I'm afraid we don't allow author or copyright information in source files. Putting one's own copyright notice is against Apache policy (and we are guided by the rules of the ASF). The SVN logs will keep track of ownership details, but it's not at all clear what copyright notices even mean once you have granted license to the ASF by virtue of submitting your patch. To avoid any confusion, we just disallow author specific information in the source. I hope you can find some compromise with your legal department - I'm pretty sure I know of other contributions from VMWare employees to open source projects that don't have this restriction, so I'm hopeful that you can resolve this issue. Best, Henry On 26 August 2010 14:58, Vishal K vishalm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I work for VMware. My company tells me that any contirubtion that I make to ZK needs to have a line saying Copyright [year of creation - year of last modification] VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. If portions of a file are modified, then I could identify only those portions of the file, if needed. No change to license is required. Needless to say, I am personally ok to make contirbutions without any such notices. What is ZK's policy on this? What would be a good solution in this case satisfyigng both the parties (ZK and my company's legal dept.)? Thanks. -Vishal -- Henry Robinson Software Engineer Cloudera 415-994-6679
Re: Putting copyright notices in ZK?
The example you are looking for is in EVERY open source project - no open source project can allow you to retain copyright or ownership rights to the code you contribute. If it would, it would not be open source. When you contribute code, you transfer your ownership and copyright rights to the project, period end of story. Which is why you can't put the author or copyright notices on the code as you propose. Just to avoid the spread of misinformation, that's not correct. Copyright and licensing are two different matters. Please read more on the subject if you are interested. -- Gustavo Niemeyer http://niemeyer.net http://niemeyer.net/blog http://niemeyer.net/twitter
Putting copyright notices in ZK?
Hi All, I work for VMware. My company tells me that any contirubtion that I make to ZK needs to have a line saying Copyright [year of creation - year of last modification] VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. If portions of a file are modified, then I could identify only those portions of the file, if needed. No change to license is required. Needless to say, I am personally ok to make contirbutions without any such notices. What is ZK's policy on this? What would be a good solution in this case satisfyigng both the parties (ZK and my company's legal dept.)? Thanks. -Vishal
Re: Putting copyright notices in ZK?
Hi Vishal - I'm afraid we don't allow author or copyright information in source files. Putting one's own copyright notice is against Apache policy (and we are guided by the rules of the ASF). The SVN logs will keep track of ownership details, but it's not at all clear what copyright notices even mean once you have granted license to the ASF by virtue of submitting your patch. To avoid any confusion, we just disallow author specific information in the source. I hope you can find some compromise with your legal department - I'm pretty sure I know of other contributions from VMWare employees to open source projects that don't have this restriction, so I'm hopeful that you can resolve this issue. Best, Henry On 26 August 2010 14:58, Vishal K vishalm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I work for VMware. My company tells me that any contirubtion that I make to ZK needs to have a line saying Copyright [year of creation - year of last modification] VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. If portions of a file are modified, then I could identify only those portions of the file, if needed. No change to license is required. Needless to say, I am personally ok to make contirbutions without any such notices. What is ZK's policy on this? What would be a good solution in this case satisfyigng both the parties (ZK and my company's legal dept.)? Thanks. -Vishal -- Henry Robinson Software Engineer Cloudera 415-994-6679
