Hi All, Thanks for the info. I will check with my legal department and see what they have to say.
-Vishal On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > Actually this is Apache's policy, not special to ZK: > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers > > specifically "note that there should be no copyright notice in the header". > > Patrick > > > On 08/27/2010 06:33 AM, Vishal K wrote: > >> Hi Henry, >> >> I will check with them. Can you point me to the other open source projects >> that you are referring to? Thanks. >> >> -Vishal >> >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Henry Robinson<he...@cloudera.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Vishal - >>> >>> I'm afraid we don't allow author or copyright information in source >>> files. Putting >>> one's own copyright notice is against Apache policy (and we are guided by >>> the rules of the ASF). The SVN logs will keep track of ownership details, >>> but it's not at all clear what copyright notices even mean once you have >>> granted license to the ASF by virtue of submitting your patch. To avoid >>> any >>> confusion, we just disallow author specific information in the source. >>> >>> I hope you can find some compromise with your legal department - I'm >>> pretty >>> sure I know of other contributions from VMWare employees to open source >>> projects that don't have this restriction, so I'm hopeful that you can >>> resolve this issue. >>> >>> Best, >>> Henry >>> >>> >>> On 26 August 2010 14:58, Vishal K<vishalm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I work for VMware. My company tells me that any contirubtion that I make >>>> >>> to >>> >>>> ZK needs to have a line saying "Copyright [year of creation - year of >>>> >>> last >>> >>>> modification] VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved". >>>> If portions of a file are modified, then I could identify only those >>>> portions of the file, if needed. No change to license is required. >>>> >>>> Needless to say, I am personally ok to make contirbutions without any >>>> >>> such >>> >>>> notices. What is ZK's policy on this? What would be a good solution in >>>> >>> this >>> >>>> case satisfyigng both the parties (ZK and my company's legal dept.)? >>>> Thanks. >>>> -Vishal >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Henry Robinson >>> Software Engineer >>> Cloudera >>> 415-994-6679 >>> >>> >>
