Hello, I think we did almost everything already. Except, that we should put the license also in .properties and .xml. Or did I misunderstood the message?
+1
Another question is, if we should remove all @author tags from our sources.
+1, what do you think?
R,
Markus
>>
>> * We confirmed the March 1 deadline for two separate events:
>>
>> - All committers must have a CLA on file by March 1. On that date, the
>> infrastructure team will lock out all accounts without a CLA on file.
>> If that is going to be a problem for some reason, then please discuss
>> it with your project's PMC.
Done, as far as I know.
>> >> - All releases made after March 1 must use the new Apache License 2.0. >> Please note that this applies to *all* releases, even maintenance >> releases where the original went out under the 1.1 license. >>
Done, see above.
>> * In conjunction with the the discussion about relicensing and some
>> copyright issues, the Board is establishing an official policy in this
>> area:
>>
>> - each and every file must have exactly *one* Copyright line, specifying
>> The Apache Software Foundation. additional individual or corporate
>> copyrights are not allowed.
>>
See above.
>> - author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in
>> establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our
>> committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative
>> development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications
>> around the use of author tags
See above.
>>
>> - it is quite acceptable and encouraged to recognize developers' efforts
>> in a CHANGES file, or some other descriptive file which is associated
>> with the overall PMC or release rather than individual files.
Okay, we should do something like this.
