Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:

>Sylvain Wallez wrote:
>
>>Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
>>
>>>But two minor things with your check-in:
>>>a) Please add the licence header next time to the source when you check-in
>>>
>>Carsten, why is the full Apache license needed in each source file ? Did
>>I miss something about this ?
>>
>Because otherwise our code is not legally protected from the current
>Apache license.
>
>>This makes the mouse wheel roll and roll to go down to the code ;)
>>
>We are fully aware of this, the Apache Licensing Committee has been
>working on an Apache License 2.0 which takes care of this and you can
>simply place a placeholder instead of the full text (just like the GPL,
>for example)
>
>But legal stuff is *way* slower than code around the ASF :)
>
DOM4J has an interesting solution : the full license (Apache-like) is 
placed at the bottom of each source file and at the top there's a simple 
header with a copyright notice and a "See the bottom of this file for 
the licence".

-- 
Sylvain Wallez
Anyware Technologies - http://www.anyware-tech.com




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