Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > Rick Hillegas wrote: ... >>3) Are there other unclear issues? > > One clear issue that no-one has mentioned. Based upon the guidelines at > http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html we should no longer commit > any contribution that has a copyright statement in it. E.g. a new file > should not be accepted if it has a copyright statement in it. The owner > of the copyright needs to remove the statement, so it's not as easy as > the committer simply deleting it.
The DB PMC can approve committing a contribution with a copyright statement in it. http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1377#action_12422783 says this: > Copyright 1997, 2004 The Apache Software Foundation or its licensors, as > applicable. > > Removing these might require the permission of the actual copyright holders, > which might be a pain to track down as to who has copyright on each file > (allowing multiple holders per file). The new ASF policy does allow copyright > notices to be left in the header (but would prefer not to). Is there a resolution for this? -jean
