On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:38, robert burrell donkin wrote:
i've been making changes to some commons sub projects and came across some
source files with (what i call) the short form of the license eg.
* Copyright (C) The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
*
* This software
From: Jon Scott Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on 12/28/01 2:03 AM, James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I saw a mail go by a month or so ago whereby a short form of
the
licence was allowable in source files that refers the reader to a
LICENSE.txt file?
James
I have said it
- Original Message -
From: Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, robert burrell donkin wrote:
am i right in thinking that for legal reasons we need to
include the complete license text in every source file (rather than just
the short form)?
My
I've been hoping a real IP lawyer would hop into this, but failing that...
I'm not a lawyer. I've dealt with lawyers over this issue a number of times
over the years, though, so I have some experience. Experience says, lawyers
have absolutely no consistency on this or anything else, but...
on 12/28/01 2:03 AM, James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I saw a mail go by a month or so ago whereby a short form of the
licence was allowable in source files that refers the reader to a
LICENSE.txt file?
James
I have said it about a thousand times...it isn't ok. There is
On 12/28/01 03:38, Kerns, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But surely someone can walk down the hall to a corporate IP lawyer and ask
them?
The corporate IP lawyers I've dealt with in the past have never gone for the
short license by reference play. They all said that it was ok if the license
was
