Saturday, March 4, 2006, 5:43:35 PM CET, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > And just to clarify, updating to new DTD definitions doesn't warrant > updating the copyright in the Derby source files; however, changes to > the actual content do.
In the legal-discuss thread Jean referred to, they made a distinction between "substantial" changes (e.g. rewriting a method) and changes that "would not likely be protected under copyright law" (e.g. changing the value of a constant, or renaming a variable). I updated the Derby Contributor Checklist on the wiki a couple of days ago, so that it now says the following about copyright notices: <quote> Every java and DITA source file in your patch must start with the Apache copyright notice. You should update the year(s) in the copyright notice as appropriate: The year should be the year the file was first created, as well as additional years when the file was revised or updated, utilizing either a series of years separated by commas (yyyy, yyyy, yyyy) or the first year and current year separated by a dash (yyyy-yyyy). See the existing Derby Java files for examples. </quote> http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyContributorChecklist Please update the wiki if you find that the text does not match your view of what should be the guidelines given to Derby contributors. -- John
