-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > > For this specific vote, I'm still not sure if a vote is the correct > approach. If we need to retain copyright notices then option 2) is the > only choice. I think "retain" could only mean leave as-is, not 'keep a > modified version'. It may be more a legal decision than a community one.
no, a vote isn't the way to go. since getting the files cleaned up is one of the graduation criteria, it would essentially be a vote on whether to ever graduate or not. :-) see the bottom of http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt note that the 'fill in the copyright owner' aspect is directed to non-apache groups that are using the licence to protect *their* code, not to apache's own code. the copyright notice in the files needs to change to: Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. information about ibm's involvement needs to go into a NOTICE file; see http://www.apache.org/licenses/example-NOTICE.txt for an example. both a LICENCE and a NOTICE file should be at the top level of the source code repository, *and* in any binary distributions. - -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQUgaIJrNPMCpn3XdAQE0HgP9G2I0q/OFc+7tPyt3Wu3gY9YnOZx8zWTf BHXSSs5CfqqsUQIDpwpIcSlr/d+wW0OgNJ2gEvM7eGb9uwMejaMud18NBluOkyDe FL6aQYSTj+jqKxVcfQd21jwMPImU22VmVD2IhJnBGXY/i1WS+8Awo/JnyEcgQw0P 8P0VBz1E6lQ= =OaDc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
