Thomas Dudziak wrote: > On 6/24/06, Daniel John Debrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...
>> > Btw, 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. The ASF policy is not to have >> individiual copyright statements in each source file and the new policy >> (I think) is to remove the copyright statement in each source file, >> leaving just the reference to the Apache Licence in the source file. > > Yeah, sure, Apache uses a Copyright license instead of a copyright > transfer. But, well, the interesting thing is that in the individual > files there is always a line like: > > Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation or its licensors, as > applicable. > > Which basically means that there is no means to distinguish the files > IBM contributed originally, and the new ones. The original Software Grant provides an ASF record of the files that were originally contributed -- as does the subversion repository itself, which provides a record of both the files that were contributed originally and the files that were added later. The convention Derby uses in the code headers came out of lengthy discussions on [email protected] and [email protected] -- see the archives at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox in the September/October 2004 time frame. I hope this helps clarify things (at least a little), -jean
