Hi all, I posted this to legal-disc...@apache.org last week, but I thought I would re-post here in case anyone had any insight. Given that VMware has signed a software grant for the Pivot codebase, is the project obligated to retain a VMware copyright notice in the source code headers, or is mention in the notice file sufficient?
Thanks, Greg >From: "Greg Brown" <gkbr...@mac.com> >To: <legal-disc...@apache.org> >Date: March 20, 2009 09:05:43 AM EDT >Subject: Re: pivot copyrights/?/ > >Hello, > >A question recently came up on the pivot-dev mailing list about copyright >notices. One of the project mentors suggested that, if the code was provided >via a software grant, the original copyright notice should be replaced with >the standard Apache header; see below. Is this correct? > >Thanks, >Greg Brown >Pivot Project Lead > >On Friday, March 20, 2009, at 08:06AM, "Martijn Dashorst" ><martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote: >>Did the software come in through a grant? >> >>I'm pretty sure the copyright notice should be removed, and replaced >>with the boilerplate Apache license header, and add VMWare in the >>notice file. >> >>Though you might want to contact legal-discuss@ before taking any action. >> >>Martijn >> >>On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Greg Brown <gkbr...@mac.com> wrote: >>> Todd and I work for VMware, so they hold a copyright on the code. >>> >>> On Thursday, March 19, 2009, at 10:47AM, "John Pritchard" >>> <j...@syntelos.com> wrote: >>>>um.. did i read in your blog on java.net that you wrote pivot from >>>>scratch.?. so how does VMware, Inc enter ? >>>> >>>> >>>>Can you elaborate on this? That's standard VMware boilerplate. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > someone needs to fix those odd "Copyright VMware, Inc" statements.. >>>>> > >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >>-- >>Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com >>Apache Wicket 1.3.5 is released >>Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3. >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
