Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Jeff Genender
Bill Stoddard did us a favor and brought it to legal (Thanks Bill S.). We'll see what they come up with. Jeff Bill Dudney wrote: > Hi all, > > This can't be the first time this has ever come up can it? Many of the > xsd and dtd's that are in G for J2EE 1.4 were copied from Tomcat 5.x > so the

Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Bill Dudney
Hi all, This can't be the first time this has ever come up can it? Many of the xsd and dtd's that are in G for J2EE 1.4 were copied from Tomcat 5.x so they had to have gotten this straightened out, right? ;-) I'd be happy to get the conversation going with legal, but its probably better

Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Jeff Genender
Here is what it says in the DTD: "This document and the product to which it pertains are distributed under licenses restricting their use, copying, distribution, and decompilation. This document may be reproduced and distributed but may not be changed without prior written authorization of Sun an

Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Exactly the right question - the copyright isn't the issue, but the license is. Where did these schemas come from, and what are the listed terms? geir Bill Stoddard wrote: Jacek Laskowski wrote: 2006/3/9, Bill Stoddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Don't change the copyright statements. The only tim

Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Bill Stoddard
Jacek Laskowski wrote: 2006/3/9, Bill Stoddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Don't change the copyright statements. The only time it is acceptable to change copyright statements is when the copyright holder has assigned copyright ownership to the ASF. Has it been assigned? If not, my understanding is

Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Jacek Laskowski
2006/3/9, Bill Stoddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Don't change the copyright statements. The only time it is acceptable to > change copyright statements is when > the copyright holder has assigned copyright ownership to the ASF. Has it been assigned? If not, my understanding is that we're not allow

Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Bill Stoddard
Jacek Laskowski wrote: Hi, It struck me while I was about to commit Bill's patch (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1686). Some files in it (and in j2ee-schema module, actually), contain Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California 94303, U.S.A.

Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Jeff Genender
Yeah, I think we need some discussion here and maybe bring this up in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many of the xsds/dtds we use for Geronimo specs seem to have the Sun copyright in them, and/or are used verbatim from Sun with all comments, etc. In fact in the JIRA issue, GERONIMO-1686, Jacek pointed out tha

Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Bill Dudney
Hi Jacek, Dooh! Sent this just before I saw your comments in the JIRA issue. I'll comment on the missing stuff in the JIRA. BTW: Thanks for looking at the patch so quickly! TTFN, Bill Dudney MyFaces - myfaces.apache.org On Mar 9, 2006, at 7:20 AM, Bill Dudney wrote: Hi Jacek, Those file

Re: Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Bill Dudney
Hi Jacek, Those files are already in your repo http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/trunk/modules/j2ee-schema/ src/j2ee_1_4schema/jsp_2_0.xsd I just copied the old schemas/dtd's from the existing geronimo stuff. TTFN, -bd- On Mar 9, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Jacek Laskowski wrote: Hi, It st

Sun copyrights and our rights to include certain files in the repo

2006-03-09 Thread Jacek Laskowski
Hi, It struck me while I was about to commit Bill's patch (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1686). Some files in it (and in j2ee-schema module, actually), contain Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California 94303, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Wh