On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 09:09 AM, Berin Loritsch wrote:
> BTW, if you place the Copyright by Apache Software Foundation tag > on your documentation (as will be done when published on the site), > you have effectively donated your copyright to the ASF. My point: authors aren't placing "copyright by Apache..." text within their contribution source files. The Cocoon web site, by default, currently adds this copyright tag via transformation. Thus, we should make it very clear to authors (by pointing them to a revised contrib.xml, etc.) *before* they contribute. I'll go ahead and update instructions, templates, and contrib.xml, etc. as appropriate. Otherwise, without this disclosure, it's *not* reasonable (from a legal perspective) for Apache to conclude authors are donating the copyright to their works. For example, what if an author contributes a work with personal copyright info already on it? We can't just assume the Apache copyright overrides it, can we, if we don't clarify copyright details ahead of time? Seems to me if authors want to retain copyright to their works, they should publish them elsewhere. We can still provide links to such off-site works from the Cocoon web site. Thanks. Diana --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
