Oh man, the docs copyrights should be assigned to the ASF. What a pain otherwise.
-Andy On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 11:55, Diana Shannon wrote: > > On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 06:11 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > >> It would be interesting whether there would be a project > >> responsible for some "commonly used" documentation. > >> For example: > >> - Understanding the Apache license :-) > > > > eh eh, you'll be happy to know that yesterday I submitted a patch > > exactly for this for the 'almost-to-be-released-after-years' Apache > > License 2.0, > > I'm trying to understand if this has *any* bearing on user contributions > of documents. > > For example, the Apache HTTP Server docs project appears to retain > copyright for their collective text (and collects royalties for > non-exclusive publishing by third parties.) On the other extreme, if you > peruse Linux Document Project contributions, you'll find most works are > copyrighted by their respective authors. > > AFAIK, the Cocoon project's language (e.g. contrib.xml) only discusses > copyright issues as related to contributions of *code*. > > What is your understanding? > (1) User contributed-docs must be provided with ASF-compatible terms; > or > (2) users retain copyright to their contributions. > > I don't care, either way. I'd just like to clarify the situation up > front for would-be authors. > > Diana > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com - software solutions for business http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document in Java http://krysalis.sourceforge.net/centipede - the best build/project structure a guy/gal could have! - Make Ant simple on complex Projects! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
