The copyright dates apply to each file so you can't just update all of them to read the same. Files containing "Apache Group" are not valid Apache 1.1 licenses and need to be fully replaced with a valid version.
David --- Paul Sundling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've created the a regular expression version of the license file and > did in fact find a bunch of inconsistencies with the license. Here are > the most popular ones: > > starting at line 2: Don't have all the CVS variables like Revision, > Date and Header > starting at line 26: mispelled acknowledgement > starting at line 38: use of names (instead of name) > starting at line 39: Apache Group (instead of Apache Software > Foundation) > starting at line 10: different copyright dates, including single years > and a variety of year combinations > > All of these are pretty straightforward as far as how to fix them. > except for line 10. Would it be good to update all of them to have the > same date ranges (2000-2004) or just use a regular expression to account > > for the combinations? I assume LICENSE.txt itself should be updated to > 2004 in any case. Let me know ASAP which way to go and I'll have a > patch pronto. Since I've gone to all the trouble of a regexp version > of the license I may as well fix the problems. It seems to me that if > the license in the file is meant to represent the copyright dates of the > > project, I should change the files. If the copyright dates are meant to > > represent the individual files, then I should leave them alone. > > So vote for : > 1. regexp expression in CheckStyle.xml and leave dates alone in the > source files > 2. update all the dates to the same range in the source files > > Paul Sundling > > P.S. Here are all the combinations for reference: > * Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 1999-2003 The Apache Software Foundation. > All rights > * Copyright (c) 1999-2003 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 1999-2003 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 1999 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 1999 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 2000-2003 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 2001-2003 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 2002-2003 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 2003 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 2003 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > * Copyright (c) 2003 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
