Agreed. Diana Shannon wrote:
> > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
