Re: IP issues

2005-01-28 Thread Yoav Shapira
are: TC 5 - option 2 TC 4 - option 2 TC 3 - option 1 (less effort for us) I think we're going nowhere. If the ASF doesn't make it clear that there are no redistribution IP issues because of licensing pollution, then I don't think my company will feel safe continuing contributing

Re: IP issues

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Thomas
Having raised this in the legal-discuss mailing list, the result was that there is actually no issue to worry about here. See http://mail-archives.eu.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200501.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. With this in mind we need to consider what, if anything, to do

Re: IP issues

2005-01-27 Thread Remy Maucherat
Mark Thomas wrote: Having raised this in the legal-discuss mailing list, the result was that there is actually no issue to worry about here. See http://mail-archives.eu.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200501.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. With this in mind we need to consider what,

Re: IP issues

2005-01-27 Thread Remy Maucherat
it as suggested in Bill's previous e-mail My own views are: TC 5 - option 2 TC 4 - option 2 TC 3 - option 1 (less effort for us) I think we're going nowhere. If the ASF doesn't make it clear that there are no redistribution IP issues because of licensing pollution, then I don't think my company will feel safe

Re: IP issues

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Thomas
Remy Maucherat wrote: I think we're going nowhere. If the ASF doesn't make it clear that there are no redistribution IP issues because of licensing pollution, snip Isn't this exactly what the posts legal-discuss say? What hasn't been said that needs to be said? quote ...everything we received

Re: IP issues

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Thomas
Remy Maucherat wrote: Mark Thomas wrote: snip - Need to populate o.a.c.util.CharsetMapperDefault.properties Options 1. Do nothing. Wait for patches to be submitted. 2. Re-instate the contents of the properties file based on Jason's previous class and include appropriate text in the NOTICE file.

Re: IP issues

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Barker
- Original Message - From: Mark Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Developers List tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:08 PM Subject: Re: IP issues Having raised this in the legal-discuss mailing list, the result was that there is actually no issue

Re: IP issues

2005-01-12 Thread Vic
Is it all cleared up now? tia, .V Remy Maucherat wrote: Davanum Srinivas wrote: +1 to rewrite the code and go past this problem. Since the consensus was on rewriting/removing, I have done the following: - removed the locale to encoding list (which will have to be reconstructed based on

Re: Re: IP issues

2005-01-12 Thread nils . gustafsson
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Re: IP issues

2005-01-10 Thread Jeanfrancois Arcand
Craig McClanahan wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:57:51 -0500, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The image copyrights are easy; things need to be copyright to the ASF, not to Sun. So they need fixing somehow. It would be best for someone from Sun to actually do this work.

Re: IP issues

2005-01-05 Thread Remy Maucherat
Davanum Srinivas wrote: +1 to rewrite the code and go past this problem. Since the consensus was on rewriting/removing, I have done the following: - removed the locale to encoding list (which will have to be reconstructed based on contributions); this opens up a relatively small compatibility

Re: IP issues

2005-01-04 Thread Remy Maucherat
Jason Hunter wrote: I do have a CLA on file. Aren't members required to? :) That code donation happened while Tomcat was still Sun internal and I was helping Sun as a contractor. Those were the good old days before I was burdened with the knowledge about IP rights that I've since acquired

Re: IP issues

2005-01-04 Thread Jason Hunter
Remy Maucherat wrote: Jason Hunter wrote: I do have a CLA on file. Aren't members required to? :) That code donation happened while Tomcat was still Sun internal and I was helping Sun as a contractor. Those were the good old days before I was burdened with the knowledge about IP rights that

Re: IP issues

2005-01-04 Thread Costin Manolache
Jason Hunter wrote: nor see why we need an exception for such a such a small amount of code. You need an exception because (a) the code was included from a third party codebase and (b) a lot of research and testing went into compiling the map used by the mapper. I can easily add an @author tag

Re: IP issues

2005-01-04 Thread Henri Yandell
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 19:58:14 -0800, Costin Manolache [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fully agree. Doesn't matter how small a contribution is ( or looks at some later time ), keeping the reference to the author and whatever else the author wants to include is the right thing to do ( if the code is

IP issues

2004-12-22 Thread Remy Maucherat
Hi, There are apparently a few licensing issues with some files in the Tomcat CVS: jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28-src/jakarta-tomcat-catalina/catalina/src /share/org/apache/catalina/util/CharsetMapper.java 18: * This class is based on a class originally written by Jason Hunter 19: *

Re: IP issues

2004-12-22 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:40:25 +0100, Remy Maucherat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fixing the GIFs should be easy. How about the two Java files ? I would need an answer from Jason and Craig to see if I can safely remove the comments (otherwise we would have to reimplement these, right ?). Sounds

Re: IP issues

2004-12-22 Thread Jason Hunter
I think it would be rude to remove the comments about where the source files originated, as they were developed apart from Apache and have a life on their own apart from Apache. Attribution is fair and proper. However I did grant permission for Sun (and of course Apache) to license the code

Re: IP issues

2004-12-22 Thread Henri Yandell
(this is based on assumptions, so let me know if they are wrong Jason) I must admit that I lack the experience to be sure of the correct action here. The image copyrights are easy; things need to be copyright to the ASF, not to Sun. So they need fixing somehow. Jason's code is harder. It

Re: IP issues

2004-12-22 Thread Brian Behlendorf
Jason is correct, the attributions remain. I'll send along the last set of guidelines I saw regarding attribution and licensing. Brian On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jason Hunter wrote: I think it would be rude to remove the comments about where the source files originated, as they were

Re: IP issues

2004-12-22 Thread Jason Hunter
I do have a CLA on file. Aren't members required to? :) That code donation happened while Tomcat was still Sun internal and I was helping Sun as a contractor. Those were the good old days before I was burdened with the knowledge about IP rights that I've since acquired (as has Remy

Re: IP issues

2004-12-22 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:57:51 -0500, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The image copyrights are easy; things need to be copyright to the ASF, not to Sun. So they need fixing somehow. It would be best for someone from Sun to actually do this work. Jean-Francois, could you make sure