Re: License problems

2008-08-10 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
Before doing any changes to the format of the license file, we should carefully review the ASF guidelines, so that the license file (as it should be now now) will follow the same format used by the other ASF projects (and ASF recommendations). I don't think the Authors section make a big

Re: License problems

2008-08-10 Thread BJ Freeman
if I remember the discussion correctly, it was that since the author(supposedly) was in the svn history, it was not necessary to have the author in the header. I don't remember it being against the ASF policy. From the few licenses I reviewed through the svn explorer they are more verbose and

Re: License problems

2008-08-10 Thread Adam Heath
BJ Freeman wrote: if I remember the discussion correctly, it was that since the author(supposedly) was in the svn history, it was not necessary to have the author in the header. I don't remember it being against the ASF policy. From the few licenses I reviewed through the svn explorer they are

Re: License problems

2008-08-10 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Aug 10, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Adam Heath wrote: BJ Freeman wrote: if I remember the discussion correctly, it was that since the author(supposedly) was in the svn history, it was not necessary to have the author in the header. I don't remember it being against the ASF policy. From the few

License problems

2008-08-09 Thread Adam Heath
In the LICENSE file at the top of the ofbiz tree, there is a segment of files that are under a BSD license. However, what follows is *NOT* the actual license they are under, but a generic BSD-template. This means we are not actually including the license each of those files is under.