Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > Thomas Dudziak wrote: tw, to which files does the COPYRIGHT containing an IBM copyright >>notice refer to ? A search in the Derby sources did not bring up any >>source copyrighted by IBM. > > > The original contribution of Derby was from IBM, hence IBM has the > copyright on all those original files.
Just in case this wasn't clear, IBM holds the copyright on its contributions in those files, just like any other contributor to an Apache project. Contributors to an Apache project retain the copyright on their contributions, they are licencing it to the ASF under the Apache Licence Version 2. Dan.
